Recently, in Red Herring, Charles Conn, CEO of Ticketmaster Online-City-Search explained the difficulties of hiring people in San Francisco: "Everyone seems to know someone whose company just got bought for millions of dollars," and according to Conn, job seekers in the Internet industry put stock options high on their list of benefits and incentives. This week's In The News examines stock options...

The Education Center for Optionetics.com offers basic information on stock options. The collection of articles and guides is broken into four sections. Basic Options Concepts presents the main workings of stock options, including how to use options and how to exit an options position. Advanced Options Concepts contains articles on more obscure concepts such as long-term risk and volatility. Option...

OptionSource.com was developed by Schaeffer's Investment Research to help educate investors about options trading. A large part of the site is devoted to familiarizing novice investors with options investing. To that end, a five-lesson series introduces investors to options trading. In addition, the site covers basic and more complex options trading strategies. Research on options trading, daily...