If you’re bullish on a particular security but don’t have a lot of capital to invest, a long call option strategy might be the best way for you to make that investment. Long call options use ...

For example, if you sell a naked call option with a strike price of $100, and the stock rises to $200, you'd be on the hook to buy 100 shares at $200 ($20,000) and sell them to the call option ...

Call options are a type of option that increases in value when a stock rises. They’re the best-known kind of option, and they allow the owner to lock in a price to buy a specific stock by a ...

You buy a call option with a strike price of $170 and an expiration date six months from now. The call option costs you a premium of $15 per share. Since options contracts cover 100 shares, the ...

Buying call and put options: How it works. When you buy a call option on a stock, you’re making a bet that the price of the underlying stock will increase by at least a certain amount before the ...

Nithin Kamath, CEO and founder of Zerodha, says that over the past one year, he has seen the "alarming" trend in markets of retail investors shifting to buying of options.Zerodha has recently ...

A call option gives the buyer the right (not the obligation) to buy an asset at a set price on or before a set date. A forward contract is an obligation to buy or sell an asset.

The appeal of buying call options is that they drastically magnify a trader’s profits, as compared to owning the stock directly. With the same initial investment of $200, a trader could buy 10 ...