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The basics of call and put options, including creating a portfolio of options

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A call option is an investment strategy, where the buyer of the option is betting that the underlying value of the asset (stock, bond, commodity) is going to rise. In this investment, the call option ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

A put option is an investment strategy where the investor bets the underlying asset's (stock, bond, commodity) market value will fall. The put option gives the investor THE OPTION to sell a specified ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

In terms of purchasing derivatives, it is the cost to purchase the option, furutre/forward contracts. This premium is a one time front-load fee paid to the broker who sold you the derivative. To ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

The writer of an option, whether it be a call or put, receives the premium when the option is sold. However this option writer has the OBLIGATION to deliver, or take the delivery of, the underlying ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

An option holder pays the premium (cost of the option) to the broker, and has THE RIGHT, but is not obligated to, exercise the option. The option holder's risky position is finite, as the most they ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

Arbitrage is the exploitation or differing prices for the same or similar asset. EX: The price of oil goes up, and the price of jet fuel does not, there may be an arbitrage opportunity between the ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

Identified by Hans Stoll in 1969, the Put/Call Parity refers to the idea of an efficient market. What he defined was that the relationship between European puts and calls with the same expiration and ...

Domain: Financial services; Category: Stocks & securities

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