Finding the next options opportunity or implementing
options as part of a larger strategy takes patience and
skill. Acting on it at the right moment takes confidence
and speed. With our research, tools, educational
resources, and powerful platforms, like
thinkorswim,
you’ll be able to judge volatile conditions and
react more quickly to the ever-changing market.
Discover more option strategies with interactive learning tools, like the Option Essentials, available in the Education Center. Develop a strategy that uses covered calls that may help generate income by selling a call option on stocks you already own, or protective puts that can help protect your stock positions against market declines – essential options strategies to help pursue your investment goals.
Discover how option contracts work, and how to use them to help profit from investments you already own and market price movements. You can also use them as a hedge to help minimize risk in an existing position or portfolio holding.
Explore covered calls and learn to use one of the most common options strategies to your advantage. Covered calls allow you to sell, or “write” a call option on shares you already have in your portfolio for a contract price that is credited to your account. You may also profit from limited stock price appreciation and dividends. The risk is that if assigned, you would have to sell your stock at the contract strike price.
Learn how to use one of the most popular market hedging strategies to potentially lock in a share price and minimize downside risks. If you feel the market may decline, this options strategy can help protect individual stock positions from a price decline. There are risks, but they're limited to the amount you pay for the put option contract.
When you create your account with TD Trade Prime Station, you’ll get access to a larger library of educational resources, so you can learn just about anything and everything when it comes to investing and trading.
thinkorswim offers professional tools like SpreadBook, SpreadHacker™, and quantitative analysis features. Check out orders other customers are working on, find defined-risk options trades, and perform stress tests in real and hypothetical positions to plot profit/loss potentials and more.
Trade Triggers lets you generate alerts and enter orders in your account when options you are following reach certain conditions – both outright price and relative value. Activated based on market conditions you set, you’ll stay in step with the fast-moving options market.
Analytic chain lets you easily modify and recalculate theoretical values in real-time, helping you spot potential trading opportunities and gauge the market’s volatility outlook. Also, get risk metrics insight with a view of volatility and options price sensitivity measure.
TradeWise Advisors,
Inc. an affiliated investment advisor
provides options trade recommendations,
backed by analytical insights that are
designed to meet specific risk-defined
strategies. TradeWise sends those
recommendations to your inbox. You make
the trade, or if you are a qualified
Trade Prime Station client, you can
elect to have
Trade Prime Station do it for you
automatically
through the Autotrade service.
It’s easy— and TradeWise
provides knowledgeable trade advice
paired with valuable option
education.*
*TradeWise
strategies are not intended for use in IRAs,
may not be suitable or appropriate for IRA
clients, and should not be relied upon in
making the decision to buy or sell a
security, or pursue a particular investment
strategy in an IRA. TradeWise
recommendations cannot be executed in IRAs
through the Autotrade service.
