Buying Options

While you may be familiar with trading shares of stocks and mutual funds, you may not have conducted much buying or selling of options. Options are popular tools for adding diversity to an investment portfolio to collect premium or hedge the risk you assume in your other investments. If you have a trading account, you have almost everything you need to start trading options.

Investing is not as simple as predicting whether or not the price of a stock will rise or fall. When you are researching options that you are considering buying or selling, you will need to look at the strike price and the time remaining to the contract's expiration. These factors, combined with the amount by which you believe the underlying instrument will rise or fall, determine potential profitability.

Powerful Tools for Buying Options

Though you can perform detailed analysis by hand or use a spreadsheet, this onerous process is not necessary. The Optioneer trading platform provides you with the information you need to determine whether or not to buy an option contract. Should you decide to purchase the investment, our system can also give you guidance as to the point at which you should sell.

With our system, you can take an active role in your investing, without committing hours to laborious research. While the information you need is presented in an intuitive fashion, the tools are sophisticated enough to satisfy even the most demanding traders. For more information about how our system can help you buy or sell options, call 800-845-2502 or contact us at info@optioneer.com.