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9 03, 2025

What Happens When Options Expire? The Options Expiration Date Explained

By |2025-03-11T01:13:27+00:00March 9th, 2025|Categories: Options|Tags: , , |

Stock options contracts are made up of a few different components: the underlying stock in question, the strike price, the number of shares, and of course, the options expiration date. Also known as the exercise date, this is the point at which you must choose to exercise your contract or let it expire. But what [...]

10 02, 2025

What are the Best Stocks for Covered Calls in 2025?

By |2025-02-11T16:20:19+00:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: Options|Tags: , , |

Covered calls represent a great opportunity for investors to earn a premium by selling contracts on stocks they already own, enhancing profit potential tremendously. But to fully capitalize on this stock investment strategy it’s imperative that you’re choosing the best covered call stocks. So, what are the best stocks for covered calls in 2025? The [...]

6 12, 2024

How to Trade a Bull Call Spread: Low-Risk Strategy for Bullish Market Conditions

By |2024-12-06T14:15:16+00:00December 6th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options|Tags: , , , , , |

Written By John Lindahl The past articles have discussed Credit trades where we opened a trade with a net credit.  Specifically. We discussed Bull Puts, Bear Calls, and their combination into an Iron Condor.  This article will discuss a Bull Call which is opened with a net debit.  Bull calls are used when your [...]

20 11, 2024

What Is an Iron Condor in Options Trading? Key Insights for Beginners

By |2024-12-03T14:28:55+00:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options|Tags: , , , , , |

Written By John Lindahl In our last article, we discussed the four types of Vertical Spread trades.   Today we are discussing the combination of the two credit trades, a bull put and a bear call, which when combined formulate an Iron Condor. Iron Condor trades are used when the outlook of an equity [...]

25 10, 2024

The Advantages of Vertical Spread Trading

By |2024-11-05T15:13:37+00:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options|Tags: , , , , , , |

Written By John Lindahl Options trading strategies provide significant advantages for traders by reducing risk, lowering cost, providing flexibility to meet changing market trends, and enhancing profitability. One such strategy is the use of “Spreads”. What is a Spread Spreads are trading strategies that combine the simultaneous buying and selling of options contracts typically [...]

16 10, 2024

What Are Options? Understanding Options for Beginners

By |2024-10-29T12:47:33+00:00October 16th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Written by: John LinDahl What are these things called “options”?  What is the mystique about them and are they as risky as people say?  There are lots of myths about options and how they are supposed to be dangerous.  While every investment contains risk, if used correctly, options can reduce risk and increase profits.  [...]

4 10, 2024

Mastering Options for Beginners: How to Profit Even in a Sideways Market

By |2024-10-21T15:23:29+00:00October 4th, 2024|Categories: Feature: Stock Market Investing, Featured: News, Options, Stock Market News, VectorVest|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Written by: John LinDahl There are many myths about options being risky.  While risk is inherent in any investment, options, when used correctly, can mitigate risk, and increase profit.  Have you ever bought a stock because you thought it was going to go up, but instead it went up a little, down a little, [...]

24 07, 2024

Why Covered Calls Are Bad (Unless You Use VectorVest!)

By |2024-07-09T00:46:29+00:00July 24th, 2024|Categories: Options|Tags: , , |

Covered calls are a great way to earn additional income while maintaining a long position in a stock you don’t expect to remain fairly stagnant, as you can collect premium from speculative investors.  But while there’s no denying the upside of learning how to sell options with this specific strategy, it’s also important that you’re [...]

21 07, 2024

How to Sell Covered Calls: Step-by-Step Guide to Selling Covered Calls

By |2024-07-09T00:46:33+00:00July 21st, 2024|Categories: Options|Tags: , , |

Of all the different ways you can make money trading options, selling covered calls is one of the most popular - and yet, one of the most complex and misunderstood stock investment strategies. While it offers substantial upside with fairly limited downside, actually selling covered calls involves many moving parts. That’s why we created this [...]

14 07, 2024

What Are Covered Calls Options?

By |2024-07-23T12:28:27+00:00July 14th, 2024|Categories: Options|Tags: , , |

One of the many benefits of trading stock options is that the possibilities for how you can make money are so abundant. There are also a variety of options risk management strategies you can employ to protect yourself from losses.  Today, we’ll introduce a unique strategy that allows you to maximize profits while covering your [...]

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