Options Trading

A synthetic long put is created by shorting 100 shares of the underlying security and purchasing a call option against the sale. Read more

Why would you ever buy a stock based on an analyst’s price target that has a chance of success of only 35%, 5% or even 1%? It’s pure insanity. Read more

The synthetic short stock with split strikes strategy is a means of muting both the risk and reward of a straight short sale. Read more

A synthetic short stock trade is formed by selling a call and buying a put with the same strike price and expiration date. Read more

The synthetic short call strategy involves shorting 100 shares of the underlying stock and selling an at-the-money put against it. Read more

Weekly options are not even a decade old. And like most new financial products, it took “weeklys” a while to grow in popularity. Read more

The synthetic long stock with split strikes offers investors a safer way to play the traditional synthetic long stock strategy. Read more

A synthetic long call is comprised of two items: 100 shares of the underlying security and one long at-the-money put. Read more

The term synthetic in options parlance refers to a position that replicates in some fashion an equivalent non-options trading position. Read more