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What is covered call writing?
September 30, 2022
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What is covered call writing?

Montréal Exchange

A covered call strategy consists of an investor selling a call option on a stock that they own. While this may sound complex, covered call strategies are quite simple and suitable for some beginner options investors. A covered call writing strategy offers the investor a form of hedging against downside risk. Essentially, the...

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Three mistakes to avoid when trading options
September 30, 2022
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Three mistakes to avoid when trading options

Montréal Exchange

Option investors of all shapes and sizes, from billionaire hedge fund managers to new investors managing $500, make mistakes. To suggest that it is possible to avoid errors when investing is simply foolish. But what is true is that these investors can take steps to understand how to avoid careless mistakes which minimizes the...

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Should you buy a put option or a call option?
September 29, 2022
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Should you buy a put option or a call option?

Montréal Exchange

When determining whether to buy a put or call option, investors owe it to themselves to study and develop their own individual investment strategy, particularly with respect to the options market, which might appear more complex when compared to buying shares. Learn more about buying put options and call...

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Risk and Money Management in Trading
July 28, 2022
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Risk and Money Management in Trading

Montréal Exchange

There is always a level of risk when investing in securities, whether it be options, fixed income or forex. The risk associated to each asset class depends on the characteristics of the asset itself and how it is affected by the factors that relate to it. For example, fixed income is generally deemed a very safe asset class...

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Splitting Shopify May Be a Boon to Options Traders
April 14, 2022
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Splitting Shopify May Be a Boon to Options Traders

Steve Sosnick

By now you almost assuredly know that Shopify (SHOP.TSX) announced a 10:1 stock split effective on a date to be announced.  With that announcement, SHOP joins Alphabet and Amazon in the club of internet stocks with high prices and pending stock splits. Although news of a stock split is generally considered a positive, let’s...

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Why options should be considered for investing in Bitcoin
April 05, 2022
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Why options should be considered for investing in Bitcoin

Montréal Exchange

Many cryptocurrency investors have bought Bitcoin and other altcoins under the assumption it will be held in their portfolio for many decades. The assumption for these “hodlers” is that the future of financial transactions will see Bay Street and Wall Street banks replaced with decentralized systems. For other investors,...

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Why and how to use an Options Calculator
April 04, 2022
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Why and how to use an Options Calculator

Montréal Exchange

The Montreal Exchange (MX) offers users an online tool to help understand and calculate the theoretical value of options. Known as the Montreal Exchange option calculator, users can take advantage of a free offering to better understand potential investment returns and risk management decisions. Montreal Exchange option...

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Index Futures and Hedging
March 09, 2022
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Index Futures and Hedging

Futures First Academy

In our previous articles, we explored various aspects related to index futures including index arbitrage. In this article, we explore another possible use of an index future namely hedging. As global stock markets have skyrocketed since the deepest trough of the pandemic, the internet is flushed with articles citing...

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