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The value of a call option can appreciate as the price of the underlying asset increases and approaches and breaches the long call's strike price. Out-of-the-money (OTM) calls are usually cheaper than ...

Call options are one of the two major types of options, and investors have two ways to use them: either selling them or buying them. Buying, or going long, calls offers tremendous potential gains ...

Once you've entered a long call spread, changes in implied volatility will affect the value of both your purchased and sold options. As a result, the impact of implied volatility on the overall ...

Options can also be traded directly—not through a broker—on the over-the-counter (OTC) market. A long call is the most straightforward call-trading strategy. If an investor is bullish on a ...

A stock option is a financial contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a ...

In investing, being long on an asset means owning it and expecting its value to go up. In the world of finance and investing, the term “long” gets tossed around quite a bit, and unfortunately ...

Investors can sell covered LEAPS call options corresponding to long-term stock holdings in their portfolios. Option sellers get to keep the premium they collect from buyers when they sell option ...

Since the long call calendar spread relies upon stagnation in the underlying stock, your profit is dependent entirely upon your initial cost of entry and the value of the back-month option at ...