If you're just beginning to learn about options, here is a great place to start. Our Option Basics articles offer an easy-to-follow breakdown on the nuts and bolts of equity options (specifically ...

Options are priced in specific ways. Specific events cause changes in option premiums, and there are pitfalls to avoid when trading options.

All the essential information an investor needs to understand how the options market works and how to start trading options.

All Star Charts' chief options strategist Sean McLaughlin joins Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre, who also ...

Rolling options out, up, or down can help traders extend a winning trade, or simply provide some additional cushion for a solid trade idea to play out ...

The strike price has an enormous bearing on how your option trade will play out. You'll have to calculate several different scenarios to choose it. They involve using possible prices at option ...

Have you ever heard about trading options, but didn’t know where to even begin? I’ll give you a quick introduction into option contract basics to get you started and lay out a basic trade. In ...

Via the use of spreads, average investors can exploit time decay, a characteristic of options, to reap profits in a limited-risk way..

Option pricing is calculated using the Black-Scholes model, which takes four influential factors into account: the price of an underlying stock (assuming constant drift and volatility), an option ...