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The wheel strategy is a popular options strategy investors can use to generate income selling options and potentially owning stock. Learn how to trade the options wheel strategy.

See how this VIX hedging strategy performed during the Pandemic Crash and learn how portfolio hedging can protect against black swan events.

Are you getting better at investing? Find out how to challenge your status quo and improve your investment process.

Misconceptions surround automated trading, and automation does not bring with it a guaranteed edge. What are the real benefits of automation, and what does automation mean for you?

Diagonal spreads are an excellent way to invest long-term with options while producing monthly cash flow. Many traders actually don’t know much about how powerful and flexible these spreads can be for successful trading.

Naked option selling is misunderstood and often gets a bad reputation from the investment community. While there are risks involved with trading naked options, here is an opportunity to educate yourself about selling options.

Here are our Top 4 MUST-KNOW traps to avoid on options expiration day. Plus, some advice for managing tricky positions.

Do you know when you should buy back the short leg of a credit spread? It's important to remember that options trading is about controlling your risk and removing trades that show too much risk without enough profit potential. If you can do this consistently, you'll be well on your way to better returns.

When should you hold a position and when should you cut losses? Learn to control your emotions and exit trades before they become big losers that blow up your account.

Under the right conditions, high options volume can tip you off to some potentially explosive moves in individual stocks. Of course this doesn’t always happen, but when you see high volume you need to know what to do next.

Here is a quick and easy hedging strategy to help you adjust a credit spread that is showing a loss.

Master the four different option order types. Learn to use limit and market orders to open and close positions.

It's fairly easy to blow up your trading account. Too often, traders (both advanced and beginner) allocate way too much to a single trade. Here is a simple formula to determine how many options contracts you should trade.

Option sellers prefer high volatility. But it is important to consistently enter trades in all market conditions. Here are three options strategies to use during low volatility markets.

Stock chart patterns play an important role in technical analysis and can be a powerful asset for all traders. Learning to recognize patterns will help you profit from breakouts and reversals. Here are 13 stock chart patterns you must know.

Here are the three best options strategies to use for earnings, and how to better understand the effects of volatility on options pricing.

Here is a trading strategy to take advantage of volatility skew in options pricing.

Many traders are concerned about their short options contracts near expiration. Here is a guide to better understand the probability of your short option being assigned.

In addition to the variety of monthly contracts available, many underlying stocks now offer weekly options. These weekly options can be employed in various trading strategies to manage both the theta and delta risk associated with options expiration. Here are four ways to trade weekly options in your portfolio.

If you've always thought that options expire on the third Friday of every month you need to read this. What most people don't know is that overnight trading can dramatically effect your positions.

Learn everything you need to know about iron condors (especially the secrets nobody tells you). Here is the essential information to help you set up the strategy and what to do if the position moves against you.

A broken-wing butterfly is similar to the long butterfly in structure, with slight variations. Learn how to set up a broken-wing butterfly option strategy.

Confused about why your call option has declined in value even though the stock has gone up? Understanding the factors that influence options pricing is critical.

Learn how to profit from big moves with the long straddle option strategy.

Covered calls can help generate income and mitigate losses when the market declines Protective puts can help protect against adverse market moves. Here are four rules to help you in a bear market.

Check out this deep-in-the-money ETF options trading strategy.