The call or put position associated with the option may be covered, in which the option owner owns the underlying asset, or naked, which is riskier. Understanding Sell to Open ...

Discount retailer Five Below’s (FIVE)stock was on quite a roll until recently. Between April 4 and June 5, FIVE stock gained 130%, more than doubling from its five-year low of $52.38. On March 20, I ...

The long call option poses less risk than the naked call option, which relies on the movement of the market price. What Is an Options Contract? "Puts" and "Calls" are two types of options contracts.

In mid-afternoon trading on Monday, the put volume among S&P 500 components was 1.30M contracts, with call volume at 1.30M, for a put:call ratio of 0.72 so far for the day, which is above normal ...

Every options position is made up of some combination of puts and/or calls. Here's how these basic tools of options investing work. For investors interested in getting started with options, the ...

In the financial world, options come in one of two flavors: calls and puts. The way that calls and puts function is actually fairly simple. Call options grant buyers the right, not obligation, to ...

The maximum amount of money you can lose when buying a call or a put option is the just the premium you paid for the trade. This means that you can only lose 100% of the money you put in the trade ...

Compared to the long-term median put:call ratio of .65, that represents high call volume relative to puts; in other words, buyers are showing a preference for calls in options trading so far today.

The Motley Fool has the following options: long January 2018 $90 calls on Apple and short January 2018 $95 calls on Apple. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy . Stocks Mentioned ...

So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the February 2014 expiration for VZ. The put contract our YieldBoost algorithm identified ...