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A covered call involves selling a call option (“going short”) but with a twist. Here the trader sells a call but also buys the stock underlying the option, 100 shares for each call sold.
The options trader makes a profit of $200, or the $400 option value (100 shares * 1 contract * $4 value at expiration) minus the $200 premium paid for the call.
Put option: A put option gives its buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell a stock at the strike price prior to the expiration date. When you buy a call or put option, you pay a premium ...
Selling a Bearish option is also another type of strategy that gives the trader a "credit". This does require a margin account. The most bearish of options trading strategies is the simple put buying or selling strategy utilized by most options traders. The market can make steep downward moves.
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.
whether the option holder has the right to buy (a call option) or the right to sell (a put option) the quantity and class of the underlying asset(s) (e.g., 100 shares of XYZ Co. B stock) the strike price , also known as the exercise price, which is the price at which the underlying transaction will occur upon exercise
A long call ladder consists of buying a call at one strike price and selling a call at each of two higher strike prices, while a long put ladder consists of buying a put at one strike price and selling a put at each of two lower strike prices. [1] A short ladder is the opposite position, in which one option is sold and the other two are bought. [1]
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