This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities. Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity ...

An option's expiration date is the day on which the contract expires and becomes useless. Many options contracts give the owner less than one year to exercise a contract, which means buying or ...

Options come with an expiration date, after which the option either has value or expires worthless. The option’s value depends on the price of the underlying asset. Options can generate big ...

A stock option is a financial contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a fixed strike price by the expiration date. Each contract is for 100 shares of ...

A put option grants its buyer the right (but not the obligation) to sell shares of an underlying security on or before a specific expiration date at a particular strike price. A put option is an ...

Again, this is the ideal situation. If the stock price remains the same or goes down before the call option's expiration date, there's nothing to be gained by exercising the option. You would ...

Timing the expiration date: Every put option has an expiration date, which is when the contract expires and the option becomes null and void. This expiration date accentuates the importance of ...

Zero-day-to-expiration options are contracts that expire the same day that they're traded. The trading volume of 0DTE options ...

Image source: The Motley Fool A call option is the right to buy a stock at a specific price by an expiration date, and a put option is the right to sell a stock at a specific price by an ...

An option contract holder can choose whether or not to execute the contract on or before its expiration date. If the option holder chooses not to execute the contract, it will simply expire ...