Options strategies can seem complicated, but that's because they offer you a great deal of flexibility in tailoring your potential returns and risks to your specific needs. One interesting strategy ...

If a tax straddle is made up solely of regulated futures contracts, foreign currency contracts, and nonequity option contracts (i.e., “IRC Section 1256 contracts”), each contract is generally taxed ...

Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Zynga Inc. are all preparing to report results after the closing bell Thursday, in ideal circumstances for looking at the price of an options strategy known as a ...

Creating “synthetics” in the options market is not uncommon. This week, we look at how to create a synthetic straddle and when to optimally use this strategy. A straddle refers to a position carrying ...