Options trading has become increasingly popular in recent years, and we thought it was time to update our intern's guide for U.S. options to help you understand options and how options markets work.

An easy-to-follow overview of weekly options and how a beginning trader can get up to speed enough to trade weeklies ...

An option is a financial instrument whose value is tied to an underlying asset; this is known as a derivative. Instead of buying an asset, such as company stock, outright, an options contract allows ...

Rather than heeding the advice of panic merchants who always have something bad to say about the markets, stay calm and get to work whenever stocks post a semi-meaningful decline. This is important to ...