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  2. Call options: Learn the basics of buying and selling - AOL

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    The appeal of buying call options is that they drastically magnify a trader’s profits, as compared to owning the stock directly. With the same initial investment of $200, a trader could buy 10 ...

  3. Options terms every investor should know - AOL

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    An option’s intrinsic value refers to the in-the-money portion of the option premium. For example, if a call option has a strike price of $40 and the stock price is $45, the option has an ...

  4. Call option - Wikipedia

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    The buyer of the call option has the right, but not the obligation, to buy an agreed quantity of a particular commodity or financial instrument (the underlying) from the seller of the option at or before a certain time (the expiration date) for a certain price (the strike price). This effectively gives the buyer a long position in the given ...

  5. Options strategy - Wikipedia

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    Option strategies are the simultaneous, and often mixed, buying or selling of one or more options that differ in one or more of the options' variables. Call options , simply known as Calls, give the buyer a right to buy a particular stock at that option's strike price .

  6. Call vs. put options: How they differ - AOL

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    Buying call and put options: How it works When you buy a call option on a stock, you’re making a bet that the price of the underlying stock will increase by at least a certain amount before the ...

  7. Stock - Wikipedia

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    A stock option is a class of option. Specifically, a call option is the right (not obligation) to buy stock in the future at a fixed price and a put option is the right (not obligation) to sell stock in the future at a fixed price. Thus, the value of a stock option changes in reaction to the underlying stock of which it is a derivative.

  8. Stock option return - Wikipedia

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    For example, suppose a call option with a strike price of $100 for DEF stock is sold at $1.00 and a call option for DEF with a strike price of $110 is purchased for $0.50, and at the option's expiration the price of the stock or index is less than the short call strike price of $100, then the return generated for this position is:

  9. Credit spread (options) - Wikipedia

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    It involves simultaneously buying and selling (writing) options on the same security/index in the same month, but at different strike prices. (This is also a vertical spread) If the trader is bearish (expects prices to fall), you use a bearish call spread. It's named this way because you're buying and selling a call and taking a bearish position.