Options trading is one of the ways to profit from the volatility in stocks. Options contracts give you the right but not the obligation to buy or sell the underlying stocks before a certain date. So instead of directly investing in those stocks, you can invest in options and build a much larger portfolio with the same investment.Options contracts are now available on most of the stocks, commodities, currencies and other assets. You can even trade options on futures contracts. Now, most of the people trade stock options. When you trade stock options, you need to know a few dates that are popularly known as the Witching Dates,Pink Chicago Bears Jersey.Now options contracts are written for a specific period of time. All expire on the third Friday of the month of their expiry,Custom Redskins Jersey. Options contracts are available not only on stocks but also on futures,Womens Ravens Jersey. These options on futures expire on different dates. These dates are known as Double Witching Dates, Triple Witching Dates and Quadruple Witching Dates. So need to know what happens on these dates.So what are Double Witching Dates? These dates are those when the two different options contracts on stock indexes, futures and stocks expire. It can be stock index options and stock options or stock options and options on stock index futures options. Similarly Triple Witching Dates are those when three different categories of options contracts expire on the same date,Doug Flutie Bills Jersey. In the same way, Quadruple Witching Dates are those when four different categories of options contracts expire.Now stock options and stock index futures options are different contracts. You need to understand the difference between them. Now when you trade a stock index futures options contract, you need to first master trading that stock index futures contract,White Drew Brees Jersey.Now, suppose S&P 500 stock index only rose 5 points in the day. So, you will be making ($250)(5)= $1250 in a single day. Not a bad amount,Pink Drew Brees Jersey. But the margin requirements for S&P 500 futures are high for most of the retail traders so they trade the E-Mini version of S&P 500 futures that has a value of only $25 multiplied by the stock index value. You need to know all these facts when you are thinking about trading S&P 500 futures options. Related articles:

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