Explore four key vertical option spreads—bull call, bear call, bull put, and bear put—to optimize your trading strategy for varying market conditions.

Bull call spreads involve buying and selling call options at different strike prices. This strategy caps potential losses to the net debit paid while also capping gains. Used by investors expecting ...

If you’re bullish on a stock’s price, it’s important to remember that there are others out there who may not share your sentiments. If you trust in your convictions, a bull put spread can come in ...

Snowflake (SNOW) was a strong performer yesterday rising 3.11% for the day and setting a new 52-week high. Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that enables organizations to store, manage, and ...

With the market in a bullish mood, it’s a good time to run the Bull Call Spread Screener. A bull call spread is an options strategy that a trader uses when they believe the price of an underlying ...

Snowflake (SNOW) is showing excellent relative strength and is above all key moving averages. It could be getting ready to break out to the upside. The Barchart Technical Opinion rating is an 88% Buy ...

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While all publicly traded enterprises aim for business success, achieving it can also ironically lead to valuation pressures. That's the tough lesson that pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences, Inc.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch — unless that lunch is coming courtesy of a mistake. Under the present scenario where trade wars and recession risks run rampant, market makers —essentially the ...

Thinking about trading options to capitalize on stock price appreciation? If your approach involves multiple options, it’s likely to be a bull spread. These spreads are a type of vertical options ...