When vertical spreads are mentioned, they quite often come with monikers such as ‘bull’ and ‘bear’. This lends most to think of vertical spreads as directional plays which is true. However, vertical spreads can be used to take advantage of two other potential trading opportunities – time decay and volatility movement.
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Most people will tell you that day trading stock options is extremely risky and shouldn’t be attempted by new traders. And they are right, to an extent. Trading options can be risky even for professional traders with 20 years experience.
However, trading stock options can be a great way to leverage your investment. For a [...]
A hedge is an investment made to offset the risk incurred by entering another investment. Essentially you are setting up a bet on both sides so that one offsets the other and you can end up winning either way.
Think of it as a form of insurance.
Options are frequently used in hedging.
For example, you can speculate [...]