If you’re looking to better understand terminology used by active stock and option investors, this is the place. Just be sure to move beyond the definitions, as true learning happens by doing. If you’d like more help blending stocks and options together, start with our Course. Once you’ve taken that, you can move on to the Premium Options Newsletter we offer to our members each week which shows how we manage a longer-term portfolio.
Options Terminology
Click the links below for more info on each active investor term.
- Call Option
- Put Option
- Strike Price
- Option Chain
- Option Expiration
- Option Assignment
- Option Premium
- Open Interest of an Option
- Options Volume
- Implied Volatility of an Option
- Implied Volatility Rank – IV Rank
- Mini Options
- Naked Option
- Short Selling – Selling Short
- Delta – Option Greeks
- Gamma – Option Greeks
- Theta – Option Greeks
- Vega – Option Greeks
- Probability of Expiring
- Probability of Touch
- Beta Weighting
- Theoretical Price of an Option
- Fade Trade
- Weekly Options (Weeklies)
- In the Money (ITM) Option – Intrinsic Value
- At the Money (ATM) Option
- Out of The Money (OTM) Option – Extrinsic Value
Options Strategies
Click the links below to learn more about each option strategy.
- Naked Option
- Synthetic Long Position
- Synthetic Short Position
- Covered Call
- Naked Call
- Covered Put
- Naked Put
- Collar – Option Strategies
- Vertical Spread
- Iron Condor – Option Strategies
- Calendar Spread
- Straddle – Option Strategies
- Strangle – Option Strategies
- Jade Lizard – Option Strategies
- Condor – Option Strategies
- Butterfly – Option Strategies
