How to Read and Understand the Options Chain

Order Types and Off-Screen Liquidity: What You See Isn't Always What You Get

As an experienced trader, you often start a trade by checking the three measures of liquidity—volume, open interest, and the bid/ask spread. If there are enough buyers and sellers, you assume the market is liquid enough to trade. If not, you might have trouble getting in or out of positions easily and efficiently, so you stay away.

How to Right-size Hedges Via Beta Weighting with XSP Options

To hedge a portfolio of individual stocks, notional value alone may not tell the whole story. The Cboe Mini-SPX Index options contract, known by its symbol XSP, allows right-sizing given its lower notional values.

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

RSI measures the speed and size of price changes and is often used to identify overbought or oversold levels.

What Are Money Market Funds?

Money Market Funds (MMFs) are savings pools that offer a safe place to park your cash while earning some interest.

Simple Strategies in Options Trading

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How Taxing Is Your Options Trade?

If you're an active trader, you work hard to generate profits in your trading account. You study the charts, you watch the day's headlines, and research your entry and exit points before placing an order. If things go your way, you end up with a winning trade in your account. But if you're using a broad-market ETF to trade options on the S&P 500®, you may be paying more in taxes than you would by using index options.* That means you may be giving up more of your hard-earned trading profits.