What Is A Golden Sweep Option?

The cap interval is a constant established by the options market on which a series of capped options is traded. The exercise price for a capped-style option plus the cap interval (in the case of a call), or minus the cap interval (in the case of a put), equals the cap price for the option….

In the index market, it is the value of the index at expiration. For many indexes, the settlement value is computed on Friday morning and, for that reason, the last day to trade some index options is on a Thursday before expiration. See Also:  Exercise Price, Automatic Exercise

This is basically a combination of Bull Spread and Bear Spread. The main feature of this strategy us that your risk is fixed and your upside/profit is capped. Selling options with the same strike price and also buying options with the same expiration months, but higher and lower strike prices. Generally, the butterfly is in…

This is when you sell a call and buy a call with a higher strike price. A Bear Call Spread is used when you have a bearish outlook on a stock and you want to bet against it by going short but you don’t want to shirt the stock because it theoretically has unlimited risk….

To anyone new to trading options. You need to understand, this is a craft. A skill. You must learn and respect it, or it is going to disrespect you. Very violently in some cases. You HAVE to know what you’re doing, not just THINK you know what you’re doing. You must understand the Greeks. This is essentially what your option is. If you…

This is a measure of a stock’s volatility relative to the S&P 500 Index. High Beta stocks have high volatility. Stocks that have a beta reading of 1.00 or greater tend to move faster or are more volatile than the S&P index. And stocks that have a beta less than 1.00 tend to move slower…