Q: I wanted to fill you in on something I have been playing with recently. In February, I used my margin account to buy 100 shares of ETF QQQ, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the tech-heavy Nasdaq ...

Options offer what often looks like easy money, but it can turn out to be some hard money to earn. Here are three option strategies that new option traders should avoid and why.

When using a married put options strategy, traders hold a long position in a stock and also purchase an at-the-money (ATM) put option on the same stock in an effort to protect against potential ...

With earnings season right around the corner, options players might want to look into employing a long straddle strategy. A long straddle is typically used ahead of expected volatility (such as before ...

One problem: You don’t have the cash to buy it. So you’re considering diving into a short put options strategy to try to generate some cash and possibly pick up the security.

A benefit of choosing married puts from the list of available options strategies is that the trader is able to cap his potential loss to a limited amount of money on the stock, in the worst-case ...