Selling short Occidental Petroleum (OXY) puts has worked for the last 2 months, as seen in my last 2 Barchart OXY articles.

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Oil prices keep rising, now over $105, pushing ConocoPhillips stock higher. One play is to collect income by selling short COP put options every month. This play works well for value investors, as I ...

A put option (or "put"), which gives the holder the right to sell, can be contrasted with a call option, which provides the holder with the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price, ...

Today, a large, unusual volume in very long-dated, deep out-of-the-money put options traded in Honeywell International.

Overlay Shares implements the strategy through put spreads, pairing each short put with a lower-strike long put to establish a defined-risk options overlay. For some investors, selling puts may offer ...

Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

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A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...

We’ve talked before about how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) represent an efficient tool for gaining quick access to different types of assets or investment exposures. We’ve also discussed how options ...

Get on the path to fast options profits with our best rapid-turnaround trading advice One of the major attractions of options trading is the ability to turn a very healthy profit in a relatively brief ...