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How Do Stock Options Work?
getty Key takeaways An option is a contract that allows the buyer to buy or sell shares of stock at an agreed-upon price. Investors can get outsized returns by using options instead of simply owning s...
Tips From Leading Financial Advisors Amid Down And Volatile Markets
In 2022, year-end planning can be tricky because of the market downturn, volatile stock prices, and … [+] job uncertainty. getty Year-end and year-start are key periods for financial and tax pla...
More than $2 trillion in stock options expire Friday with put-call ratio near levels unseen since 2001
Equity options worth $2.1 trillion in notional value are set to expire on Friday in the latest monthly event where weekly and monthly options tied to single stocks, equity indexes and exchange-traded ...
Market Volatility Spells Opportunity for Options-Savvy Investors
Text size American Express stock offers a way to monetize the view that the wealthy won’t be terribly affected by an economic downturn. Nora Tarvus/Dreamstime.com Once again, the stock market is confr...
6 Tips For Stock Options And RSUs In Volatility And Down Markets
When your company’s stock price becomes a rollercoaster, should you change your financial plan or … [+] stick with it? getty Stock-price volatility and market declines can rattle anyone—es...
Developing An Exit Strategy For Employee Stock Options In A Down Market
When is it time to sell your stock options? Stocks are down across the market and some will never … [+] return to their all-time high, regardless of how much time passes. getty Stocks are down t...
The ‘Fed Put’ Has Finally Expired. What Investors Should Do Now.
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a news conference in Washington on May 4. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Jerome Powell’s recent news conference lingers like a traumatic Zen koan. ...
These Are Extraordinary Times for Stocks. How to Profit From the Fear.
Text size Traders at the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Anyone who predicted that a pandemic would be followed by events that might spark World War III is probably in direct commu...
U.S. stock market investors dealing with ‘biggest triple-witching day in memory’
The stock market was relatively calm Friday ahead of “triple witching“ — the simultaneous expiration of individual stock options, stock-index futures and stock-index options. Triple witching occurs on...
Markets Are About to Face Off With the Fed. How to Play It.
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...