Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

A bear call spread is an options strategy where you sell a call option at one strike price and buy another at a higher strike price for the same stock and expiration. This approach caps both potential ...

Financial advisors seeking efficient, risk-adjusted growth for clients turn to broad-based, low-cost U.S. large-cap index funds. While index funds provide broad market exposure, they do not take ...

Happy Thursday to Barchart readers everywhere. It’s a glorious day to be alive if you are a Toronto Blue Jays fan. Last night, my favorite baseball team punched their ticket to the ALCS, beating its ...

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A Bear Call Spread is used when you have a neutral to negative view on a stock. While this strategy has a limited risk, it also has a limited reward. So if you're expecting a big down move to occur, ...

POET Technologies has made progress at their production facilities in Malaysia, with a $500K order for optical engines. My target price for 2032 is $34-$45 in a base-case scenario, placing POET in the ...

Bitcoin's BTC $88,769.65 put-call ratio has jumped ahead of Friday's multi-billion-dollar options expiry on Deribit, but its traditional bearish interpretation may not tell the full story this time.

President Donald Trump's Liberation Day is living up to its name, though perhaps not in the way the administration envisioned. Thanks to last week's sweeping wave of tariffs, technical analysts have ...