As its name indicates, a short call option is the opposite of a long call option. In a short call option, the seller promises to sell their shares at a fixed strike price in the future.

Conversely, when a trader sells to open a call option (a "short call"), it's a bet the stock will stay at or below the strike price through expiration. In other words, this premium-selling ...

In general, an option seller would like to see implied volatility decline, which would reduce the cost to buy back the contract. However, because the short call spread involves both a sold option ...

A long call vertical consists of two call options in the same expiration: a long call closer to the stock price and a short call further out-of-the-money (OTM) than the long call. When setting up a ...

but don’t think it will go up significantly in price in the short term. An investor like this would write a one call option for every 100 shares of the stock they own with a strike price similar ...