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For example, the options chain below on CareTrust REIT comes from Yahoo Finance, and it offers a standard array of the data available on a chain. Each option expiration has its own chain. This ...
Options Clearing Corporation's (OCC) Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) mandated an industry-wide change to a new option symbol structure, resulting in option symbols 21 characters in length. March 2010 - May 2010 was the symbol consolidation period in which all outgoing option roots will be replaced with the underlying stock symbol. [1]
A trader who expects a stock's price to increase can buy a call option to purchase the stock at a fixed price (strike price) at a later date, rather than purchase the stock outright. The cash outlay on the option is the premium. The trader would have no obligation to buy the stock, but only has the right to do so on or before the expiration date.
For example, a calculator lets you raise the current stock price and assume 10 fewer days to the option’s expiration, and then figures out the estimated value of the option at that point.
In finance, a ladder, also known as a Christmas tree, is a combination of three options of the same type (all calls or all puts) at three different strike prices. [1] A long ladder is used by traders who expect low volatility , while a short ladder is used by traders who expect high volatility.
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If the options are purchased, the position is known as a long strangle, while if the options are sold, it is known as a short strangle. A strangle is similar to a straddle position; the difference is that in a straddle, the two options have the same strike price. Given the same underlying security, strangle positions can be constructed with a ...
Across more than three dozen charts, top Wall Street experts explain how the stock market's outstanding two-year run is reaching a turning point as a new president enters the Oval Office and ...