This continues our occasional series on stock options for amateurs. I find options to be a nice tool in my investing arsenal. The previous post in this series was Stock Options Tutorial 1. Options …| Economist Writing Every Day
Put simply, a stock option is a contract to buy (if it is a call option) or to sell (if it is a put option) a given stock at some particular price (“strike price”), by some particular expiration da…| Economist Writing Every Day
Most years, stocks go up, by something like 9%. Wouldn’t it be nice to invest in a fund that went up double those amounts? Such funds exist. They use futures or other derivatives to move up (or dow…| Economist Writing Every Day
