Long Options Strategies: When to Buy Calls or Puts — Connie Hill, CMT (7/14/26)

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Connie Hill explains buying calls and puts, managing time decay, risks, and when long-option strategies may fit your trading plan. Educational, not investment advice.

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What stands out

Connie Hill, CMT, walks through when buying calls or puts can make sense and practical techniques to blunt time decay, which is the meat of Schwab's coaching webcast. For Charles Schwab Corporation, options education is more than pedagogy: it nudges client behavior toward more frequent platform use and deeper engagement, activity that supports per-contract fees and advisory flows even as plain-vanilla equity commissions edge lower. The session's emphasis on risk disclosure and exit planning reads like a retention play, teach customers to trade smarter, and many of them will stay active clients.