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Created by: Timmwilson
Number of Blossarys: 22
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This strategy involves the purchasing and selling of call options. Investors who utilize this strategy anticipate the marketable asset to increase in value, but not to an extreme. The Strategy: The ...
A covered call is an options strategy where the investor holds his position in an asset (long position), and shorts a call option (sells call option) simultaneously. This is an attempt from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By: Timmwilson