James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

A bull call spread is an options strategy used to profit from moderate increases in the underlying asset’s price while limiting risk. It involves buying a call option at a lower strike price and ...

The trade he was referring to was our call spread on Powell Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:POWL). That’s a small cap industrial that’s essentially a picks & shovels play on increased demand for energy.

Stocks continue to come under serious selling pressure as the Iran War rages on and oil prices spike. With those risk factors in play, it might be worth looking for some bearish option trade ideas.

We have spent a lot of time talking about ticks, spreads and trading costs in the equities markets. Today, we take a look at options trading. As we know, options markets are very different to stocks – ...