Keep full premium for expired out of the money options: If the written option expires out of the money —meaning that the ...

Put options are financial contracts that give the holder the right – but not the obligation – to sell an underlying stock or asset at a specified price (the strike price) within a certain time period.

Outperformance options, also known as exchange or spread options are exotic derivatives that allow an investor to gain leveraged exposure to the percentage price performance of one security or index ...

This blog is the first post in a four-part series. Part I will provide a high-level summary of stock option basics. In recent years, and at least in part due to the extremely tight labor market, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...