Buying Vs Selling Options

Are there any tips and tricks for trading options that can help you decide when to buy and sell options. What should you do when trading call options? Here's a guide for people who are just starting out with option trading. It tells you what factors can help you decide when to buy and when to sell an option. Price How do you decide if an option is priced too low or too high? Like with stocks, you will have to figure out what the option is really worth. Clearly, you can't figure out the value of an option the same way you figure out the value of a stock. But there is a different model called the Black & Scholes model that has a complicated formula to help you figure out the intrinsic value of any option. If the price of an option is more than what it's really worth, it's overpriced and should be sold. If the price is less than what it's really worth, it's underpriced and you should buy it. Volatility This is an important thing to think about when deciding whether to buy options or sell them. Volatility is good for both call and put options because it makes the option more valuable if the price goes up, but it limits your risk if the price goes down. Even if the stock price stays the same, if volatility goes up, the value of the option can go up. When volatility is likely to go up, it is always best to buy options. When volatility is likely to go down, it is best to sell options. Events Can you imagine what would have happened if you had sold put options before the Lehman Brothers crisis or the Greek crisis? Before big events or important geopolitical risks, it's always better to buy options instead of selling them. When you buy options, your loss is restricted to the premium you pay. If you sell options before something bad happens, you could lose all your money. Trend How you feel about the stock or index is a very important part of whether you should buy or sell an option. It would be ideal if you can determine if the stock will either go up decisively or go down decisively. In that case, you can buy either a call option or a put option, depending on what you want to do. Time decay This is a very important thing to think about when deciding whether to buy or sell an option. Remember that every option contract has a set date when it ends. Time hurts the person who buys the option and helps the person who sells the option. Most of the time, time decay is pretty stable in the first few days of the month. But as the expiration date gets closer, the time decay starts to happen more quickly. That means the value of the option starts to drop quickly. So, it's not a good idea to buy options close to their expiration date unless you really want to take a risk and bet on volatility. A big choice is whether to buy the option or sell it. The more you think about a choice, the better your chances of making the right one.