LEAPS are options with a year or more until expiration. They behave more like owning the stock than a short-dated contract does. A real trade, with the numbers.
Assignment risk on short options explained with a real worked trade: what triggers early assignment, what it costs, and how to actually manage it.
Vertical spread vs single leg option, with real numbers on both. One caps your upside to lower your cost, the other pays full price for an open ceiling.
Theta decay explained with a real options chain example: what time decay costs you day by day, and why holding a losing contract is a math problem, not luck.
How to read implied volatility: what IV rank and percentile actually mean, why premium inflates before earnings, and how IV crush works, with real numbers.
Iron condor options strategy explained with real numbers: four legs, max profit, max loss, and both breakevens on one worked trade.
Intrinsic value vs extrinsic value decides whether an option behaves like the stock or like a lottery ticket. Real numbers, no formulas, no dictionary talk.
How do options expiration dates work? The date isn’t a fact you check later — it sets the price you pay. Real numbers comparing two expirations, same trade.
Call option vs put option, explained with two real worked trades and a $2,600 mistake from mixing up which one I actually owned.
What happens when an option expires depends on one thing: in the money or out. Here’s the mechanics, plus a real $18,700 auto-exercise surprise.