Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Michael is a former senior editor of investing and trading products for ...

This popular technique combines a short put and a short call spread Brian Dolan's decades of experience as a trader and strategist have exposed him to all manner of global macro-economic market data, ...

Staying neutral can be difficult, whether in lunchroom arguments at work, watching a battle between rival sports teams or trading stocks in a volatile market. But one of the advantages of markets is ...

How many times have you suffered a loss on a stock position and wished the stock would bounce back to the original price so you could get out at breakeven? There is a method -- often called the "stock ...

Options trading is the buying and selling of options contracts in the market, usually on a public exchange. Options are often the next level of security that new investors learn about following their ...

Option trading can deliver tremendous profits, but the flip side of those gains is the potential for tremendous losses, since ...

When traders first start using options, they often employ them either as a way to take a directional view on an asset (buying a call if they expect it to rise or a put if they expect it to fall) or as ...

As we continue to maneuver the second half of the calendar year, now is the perfect time for investors to refresh on important options strategies. One notable strategy worth focusing on is the ...