A call option is a contract that guarantees its owner the right to buy a certain number of shares of a stock at a particular strike price on or before a specific expiration date. A call option is ...

When you buy to open call options, you are making a bet that the underlying stock will rise in value. If you buy one call contract, you are essentially long 100 shares of that stock. As such ...

In this strategy, a shareholder sells (or writes) a call option against one of his or her stock investments. To ensure all of the calls are "covered," as opposed to "naked," no more than one call ...

Purchasing a call option is bullish strategy. Each standard equity call option purchased gives you the right, not the obligation, to buy 100 shares of the underlying asset at a set strike price on or ...

Selling an uncovered call is a bearish strategy that can benefit when the stock remains below the short call's strike price or falls. Like other short premium options strategies, naked call sellers ...