The Options & Futures Guide

Learn option trading and you can profit from any market condition. Understand how to trade the options market using the wide range of option strategies.

Discover new trading opportunities and the various ways of diversifying your investment portfolio with commodity and financial futures.

To help you along in your path towards understanding the complex world of financial derivatives, we offer a comprehensive futures and options trading education resource that includes detailed tutorials, tips and advice right here at The Options Guide.

Options Strategy Search Engine

Profit graphs are visual representations of the possible outcomes of options
strategies.
Profit or loss are graphed on the vertical axis while the underlying
stock price on expiration date is graphed on the horizontal axis.

Before you begin trading options, you should know what exactly is a stock option and understand the two basic types of option contracts - puts and calls. Learn how they work and how to trade them for profits.... [Read more...]

Buying straddles is a great way to play earnings.
Many a times, stock price gap up or down following the quarterly earnings report
but often, the direction of the movement can be unpredictable. For instance, a sell
off can occur even though the earnings report is good if investors had expected
great results....[Read more...]

When trading options, you will come across the use of certain greek alphabets such as delta
or gamma when describing risks associated with various options positions. They are known as "the greeks".... [Read more...]

Many options traders tend to overlook the effects of commission charges on their overall profit or loss. It's easy to forget about the lowly $15 commission fee when every profitable trade nets you $500 or more. Heck, it's only 3% right?....
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Another way to play the futures market is via options on futures. Using options to trade futures offer additional leverage and open up more trading opportunities for the seasoned trader....
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If you are very bullish on a particular stock for the long term and is looking to
purchase the stock but feels that it is slightly overvalued at the moment, then
you may want to consider writing put options on the
stock as a means to acquire it at a discount....[Read more...]

To achieve higher returns in the stock market, besides doing more homework on the
companies you wish to buy, it is often necessary to
take on higher risk. A most common way to do that is to buy stocks on margin....[Read more...]

Synthetic Positions

Options Arbitrage

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