📄️ The Covered Call: A Smart Way to Generate Income
Learn how to use the covered call strategy to generate consistent income from stocks you already own.
📄️ The Protective Put: Your Portfolio's Insurance Policy
Learn how to use protective puts to hedge your stock positions and protect your portfolio from a market downturn.
📄️ The Cash-Secured Put: Acquiring Stocks at a Discount
Learn how to use the cash-secured put strategy to generate income and potentially buy stocks you like at a lower price.
📄️ The Long Call and Long Put: Simple, Powerful, and Directional
A return to the basics, exploring the long call and long put as pure directional strategies with the full context of the Greeks and volatility.
📄️ The Collar: A Low-Cost Way to Protect Your Gains
Learn how to use the collar strategy to protect a stock position for little to no cost by combining a protective put and a covered call.
📄️ An Introduction to Spreads: The Power of Combination
Discover the world of options spreads, where you can combine long and short options to create defined-risk strategies with higher probabilities of success.
📄️ Debit Spreads vs. Credit Spreads: A Head-to-Head Comparison
A detailed comparison of debit and credit spreads, exploring their unique characteristics, risk profiles, and the ideal market conditions for each.
📄️ The Art of Rolling: Adjusting Your Positions Like a Pro
Learn the essential technique of rolling options positions to manage risk, take profits, and extend the duration of your trades.
📄️ Assignment and Exercise: What to Do When the Time Comes
An essential guide to the mechanics of option exercise and assignment, and the strategic considerations for both option buyers and sellers.
📄️ The Top 10 Mistakes Options Traders Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Learn to avoid the common pitfalls that trap new options traders, from ignoring implied volatility to trading without a plan.