While many are familiar with buying stocks in hopes of profiting, the strategies for benefiting from price declines are often less understood. Two powerful tools in the bearish (pessimistic) ...

Selling puts is an oft-overlooked option trade that can pair well with long-term investing strategies under certain circumstances. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Want to broaden your investor playbook, but don't know how or where to start? Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre explains a specific segment of options trading: cash-secured puts.

Options trading can be complex, and the trading jargon may confuse even experienced investors and traders. Two of the most common options contracts to understand are call and put options. Here’s what ...

Derivatives like options can be risky securities to trade especially if you don’t have a strategy. For many traders during the pandemic years, options were used to speculate on volatile stocks. But ...

In the financial world, options come in one of two flavors: calls and puts. The way that calls and puts function is actually ...