Do you feel like you've seen this movie before? Trouble in the Europe especially Spain. People in the streets; panic in the market.

Do you know how many different types of options strategies there are? A lot: That's how many!

If you want to learn to trade here's a really useful option strategy that all traders should know.

The recent potential Iranian oil crisis and subsequent rise in gasoline prices to unseen levels is a reminder of how "black swan" events can impact our lives in unforeseen and unforeseeable ways.

To be good at anything requires learning the fundamentals and constantly working on them throughout your career.

One of the effects of the seasonality of options (that I talk a lot about with my students) is that premium sellers see the most dramatic erosion of the time value of options they have sold during the last week of the options cycle.

One of the more difficult problems with which to deal for an options trader has historically been the broad bid-ask spreads quoted for options.

Do you know how many different types of options strategies there are? A lot

The naked call is defined as an option strategy where an option player sells (writes) call options without owning the underlying security.

We have discussed the straddle options strategy in the past, a strategy that traders can use when the market is volatile but direction is uncertain.

Let's say that you have a moderately bullish bias toward a stock and the overall market is slightly bullish. Is there a way that you can take advantage of this investing scenario while limiting risk?