Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, November 12. The following is an excerpt from our latest episode of our Schaeffer’s Market Mashup podcast, featuring an insightful ...

This report reviews an attractive high-income-generating options trade on a compelling long-term fintech business (Warren Buffett is a big shareholder). The trade puts 4.3% of extra income in your ...

Options are a type of derivative, meaning they “derive” their value from the securities they’re linked to. Options are also leveraged, meaning a smaller amount invested in them generates larger gains ...

Derivatives are instruments that obtain value based on the price of an underlying asset, such as a stock, bond, ETF, or commodity. Stock option contracts are securities that give traders the choice of ...

Thanks Option Maestro for the discussion of a defensive portfolio using consumer staple and health care stocks through the options method. I would consider all of these stocks good additions to a ...

It's a terrifying time to be a market maker these days. Recently, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for April plunged to 50.4, its lowest reading since June 2022. It also ...

With markets pulling back on Wednesday, it’s a good time to check in on our bear put spread screener. A bear put spread is a vertical spread that aims to profit from a stock declining in price. It has ...

Although options trading carries a reputation for being the exclusive domain of professional traders, they’re actually powerful tools for everyday investors, including beginners. Once the basic ...

Typically, once you’ve had enough (fun or frustration) with a speculative enterprise like troubled semiconductor giant Intel (INTC), it’s usually best to part ways. However, the market still seems ...

To construct a short put spread, you would first identify a chart level that has served as support in the past A long put spread is a bearish options strategy that is usually initiated when the trader ...

This analysis explores such tools using Tesla’s stock movement in 2025 as an example. During the selloff, Tesla approached key technical support levels, while options market sentiment appeared to turn ...