A cash-secured put is a put you sell with the cash set aside to buy 100 shares at the strike price if the put is assigned.
Lesson 18
Sell your first put
Learn what a cash-secured put pays, what cash it sets aside and how to pick one on a sample chart.
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Learn how to find a put on the chart
Pick a sample stock, check its puts on three measures, then open one put’s quote details. Each of the seven checkpoints ends with a two-answer question. Nothing places a trade.
CHECKPOINT 1 OF 7
Choose SOFI
0 / 7 checkpoints earned
When the chart loads, follow its highlighted control to earn your first checkpoint.
- Choose SOFI
- Choose 1D, upcoming
- Choose Cash secured put, upcoming
- Read Annualized, upcoming
- Read Rating, upcoming
- Read Yield, upcoming
- Inspect this $15 put, upcoming
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