The primary difference between LEAPS and standard weekly or monthly options is time. Because there is more time for the predicted stock move to play out, LEAPS suffer less from time decay. And, since ...

Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities, also known as LEAPS, are options with longer lifespans than typical options, with expiration dates between one and three years in the future. While traders ...

Stock options look like the vampires of the investing world, sure to kill you no matter how suave and sexy they seem when you meet. Most buy-and-hold mutual fund investors would grab a cross and start ...

There are hundreds of option strategies. And they can be vastly different in terms of tactics and desired outcomes. But in fact, there are really only a few basic strategies, and everything else is ...

Stock options look like the vampires of the investing world, sure to kill you no matter how suave and sexy they seem when you meet. Most buy-and-hold mutual fund investors would grab a cross and start ...

Over the last several months, I've shown you numerous options trading strategies that you can use to make serious money in the markets - simple call and put buys, bullish and bearish "loophole trades, ...

Program trading rose last week on the NYSE Euronext's New York Stock Exchange as overall trading picked up. For the week ended Sept. 18, program trading averaged 1.07 billion shares daily of the 3.35 ...