Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Learn how to profit from options trading with strategies for buyers and writers. Understand potential gains and risks in ...

A collar options strategy protects stock holdings from significant losses while limiting potential gains. Investors create a collar by owning shares of a stock. They then purchase a put option below ...

For gold stock Orla Mining, a cash secured put could allow a trader to buy shares at a discount or land a healthy return.

Overlay Shares implements the strategy through put spreads, pairing each short put with a lower-strike long put to establish a defined-risk options overlay. For some investors, selling puts may offer ...

Shorting cash-secured put options on Micron Technology (MU) can yield huge returns. A 2-month away MU put option yields 9.6% for a strike price 9% lower. And a one-month expiry MU put 9% lower has a 5 ...

Nasdaq, Inc. stock is near a 3-month low. If, indeed, the market has hit a bottom, it makes sense to sell short ...

Options traders are betting that stocks have more room to fall. A measure called "skew" rose Monday morning to its highest level since November, Cboe Global Markets data showed. A higher skew ...

Intel Corp stock has been moving higher, and investors may be signaling a bottom in INTC. This is from a large, unusual ...