If you want to trade stock options, you must know how to read an options pricing table. This is the table that shows all of the available options for a given stock, as well as their corresponding prices. Whatever broker you are using, what’s involved in the options chain is pretty standard. In this post,

When you’re trading stocks, you’re buying and selling shares of a company. However, when you’re trading options, you’re buying and selling the right but not the obligation to purchase or sell a stock at a certain price by a certain date. This can be a great way to protect your investments through hedging or to

Trading is an easy way to go broke if you don’t adhere to good risk management protocols. Options trading allows you to leverage a fraction of the amount it would take to get involved in trading stocks. Risk management helps cut down losses and protect your trading account.  The issue is that this essential part

Options present a great opportunity for traders to make a greater profit than would be possible if they were to trade the underlying asset, usually stocks, by amplifying potential upside gains.  For example, instead of using $5,000 to buy 100 shares of a $50 stock, you could hypothetically spend $1,000 on a call options contract and