I woke up this morning feeling nostalgic. I realized it’s been three years and seven months since I wrote my first Barchart commentary about unusual options activity. I’ve always emphasized that it ...

A debit spread is an options strategy that involves the purchase and sale of the same class of options with the same expiration date but different strike prices. Right now, this may sound confusing, ...

A buy-write strategy, also referred to as a covered call, is an options trading approach in which an investor simultaneously purchases shares of an underlying stock and sells a call option on those ...

How to use the dividend capture strategy with call options Have you ever noticed a stock getting swarmed with heavy call selling activity just ahead of its ex-dividend date? If so, it's possible that ...

Income has long been one of the most consistent requests advisors hear from clients, but the way that income is being delivered inside ETFs is changing. Options-based strategies are no longer limited ...

Assets in options-overlay strategies surpassed $100 billion in 2025, as investors chased headline yields of ten, twelve, even ...