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 long call trades fail — not because the trader was wrong on direction, but ...

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 ...