I woke up this morning feeling nostalgic. I realized it’s been three years and seven months since I wrote my first Barchart commentary about unusual options activity. I’ve always emphasized that it ...

Big data analytics specialist Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) is generating news, this time for severe underperformance. On Tuesday, PLTR stock dropped more than 4%, forcing onlookers to question ...

A buy-write strategy, also referred to as a covered call, is an options trading approach in which an investor simultaneously purchases shares of an underlying stock and sells a call option on those ...

“Income overlays reshape the return profile of a fund, and yield is never free,” Kuplinska says. “The key for advisors is alignment. If a client prioritizes cash flow over maximum upside participation ...

Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...

How to use the dividend capture strategy with call options Have you ever noticed a stock getting swarmed with heavy call selling activity just ahead of its ex-dividend date? If so, it's possible that ...