Option strategies combine calls and puts to manage risk, speculate on price moves, and help commodity traders profit from volatility, direction, or hedging needs.
This is a brief guide to some of the most popular options strategies used by options traders.
We list a total of 12 options strategies, starting with the 4 most popular ones below, followed by 8 more options strategies.
If you’d like to try them in action, see our list of regulated brokers at the end of this technical analysis guide.
Most Popular Option Strategy Guides For Traders
- Call Option – If bullish, call options to maximize leverage and minimize risk to the downside.
- Put Option – Puts are a risk defined alternative to shorting a stock, puts max leverage and minimize risk
- Bull Call Spread – A risk defined and reward defined alternative to buying call options.
- Bear Put Spread – A cheaper alternative to buying put options outright, however, defines max reward.
More Option Strategies
- At the Money Option: Learn about why an ‘at-the-money’ options contract has no value.
- Bear Put Ratio Backspread: This guide covers the components of bear put ratios.
- Bear Put Spread: How is the bear put spread different from the bear put ratio? Find out.
- Bull Call Ratio Backspread: Learn about why this bullish backspread strategy is used by options traders.
- Bull Call Spread: Find out why it’s also called the ‘debit spread’.
- Call Option: See how leverage is used in call options.
- In the Money Option: Why does an ‘in-the-money’ option have intrinsic value?
- Put Option: What role do defined risk and leverage play?
Where Can I Trade Commodity Options?
If you are interested in trading commodity options, look at our reviews of these regulated brokers available in :
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