The last time small investors were spending more on puts than calls was during the regional banking crisis two years ago ...

When you buy a long put option on a stock, it's because you expect the shares to decline. In a long put spread, however, you probably have a more concrete downside target in mind. Rather than ...

Let's take a closer look at long put options by examining a hypothetical trade. You're downbeat on the prospects for XYZ, which is currently trading at $35 per share. Over the next two months ...

Options can also be traded directly—not through a broker—on the over-the-counter (OTC) market. A long put is probably the most straightforward put-trading strategy. If an investor is bearish ...

A long put vertical consists of two put options in the same expiration: a long put closer to the stock price and a short put further out-of-the-money (OTM) than the long put. When setting up a put ...

The savage stock market rally following U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff turnaround may have caused severe pain for many retail option traders. As the chart below from Vanda Research shows, retail ...

Put options are a type of option that increases in value as a stock falls. A put allows the owner to lock in a predetermined price to sell a specific stock, while put sellers agree to buy the ...