While many are familiar with buying stocks in hopes of profiting, the strategies for benefiting from price declines are often less understood. Two powerful tools in the bearish (pessimistic) ...

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Want to broaden your investor playbook, but don't know how or where to start? Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre explains a specific segment of options trading: cash-secured puts.

What Is a Stock Option? A stock option is a contract giving its holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a given price before a specific date. There are two main types of ...