Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...

There are many ways you can use options to bet bullishly on a stock, but buying a long call might be the most popular. This straightforward strategy lets you profit from an equity's expected rise, and ...

Buying call options sounds simple. You’re bullish, you buy a call, and if the stock goes up, you win. But in practice, most ...

Call options are one of the two major types of options, and investors have two ways to use them: either selling them or buying them. Buying, or going long, calls offers tremendous potential gains, and ...

A long call butterfly is entered when a trader thinks a stock will not rise or fall by much between trade initiation and expiration. When using calls, the trade is constructed by buying an ...