Selling short Occidental Petroleum (OXY) puts has worked for the last 2 months, as seen in my last 2 Barchart OXY articles.

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A put option (or "put"), which gives the holder the right to sell, can be contrasted with a call option, which provides the holder with the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price, ...

Overlay Shares implements the strategy through put spreads, pairing each short put with a lower-strike long put to establish a defined-risk options overlay. For some investors, selling puts may offer ...

Learn the key differences between long and short positions, how each strategy works, potential risks, and when investors use ...

A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...

While many investors view options trading as a short-term strategy, it can also play an important role in a long-term ...

A Barchart report today shows unusually heavy trading in Oracle Corp (ORCL) put options ahead of its earnings due out next ...