Options 101 Course

Introduction to Options

Why Options?

You can trade options in order to accomplish a variety of investment objectives.  Here are a few examples of how options can be useful coupled with examples of associated strategies:

Rationale Example of a Strategy
Insurance against existing positions
  • Synthetic Call
  • Collar
Income enhancement
  • Covered Call
  • Naked Put
Profit from declining stocks
  • Long Put
Profit from volatile stocks
  • Straddle
  • Strangle
Profit from range-bound stocks
  • Butterfly
  • Condor
Invest in stocks by paying less out of your trading account
  • Synthetic Future


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