Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

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The Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF allows retail investors to earn Treasury Bill-like returns from the options market by buying 'box spreads'. The BOXX ETF is a short-term cash management tool that ...

CSHI has outperformed T-bills and HYSAs by over 1.3% higher returns through integrating a strategic put spread options strategy. While CSHI's yield is taxed as ordinary income rates, its effective ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and ...

Have you found strategies that make use of the decay of an option's theta that are attractive but you can't stand the associated risk? At the same time, conservative strategies such as covered-call ...

Houston, we have liftoff. Treasury bill and other fixed-income yields soared past 5% in April 2023 and have stayed there, with the 1-year Treasury bill reaching 5.4% by September. This has sparked a ...

A debit spread is an options strategy that involves the purchase and sale of the same class of options with the same expiration date but different strike prices. Right now, this may sound confusing, ...

In a bull market, stocks are trending upwards, and investors are often trying to place trades that would benefit from rising prices. Option strategies have defined parameters that allow you to express ...

CHICAGO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Unusual volume in options on the Standard & Poor's 500 index <.SPX> with strike prices more than 50 percent below the index's current level has tongues wagging in the ...