Sell to open is a phrase used to represent the opening of a short position in an option transaction.

A put option and a call option are two types of options contracts. Depending on the contract, risk can range from a small prepaid amount of the premium to unlimited losses. The long call option ...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Starbucks Corp. (NASD: SBUX). So this week we highlight one interesting put ...

Every options position is made up of some combination of puts and/or calls. Here's how these basic tools of options investing work.

A call option buyer profits when the underlying stock price increases in value, while a put option buyer profits when the underlying stock price decreases in value.

So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the June 2025 expiration for WMT.

The put-call open interest ratio refers to the ratio of active put contracts to active call contracts at a given time. An increase in the put-call ratio indicates a bias towards put options, offering ...

In this clip, Motley Fool Options analyst JP Bennett answers a listener question about when it would be appropriate to put both a call option and a put option on the same stock.

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

A long naked option buying strategy, or simply buying either a call or a put, has its own benefit and drawbacks. A naked option purchase has unlimited profit potential because, theoretically, the ...