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The basic idea of an accumulator contract is that the buyer speculates a company will trade between a certain price range (the range between the strike and the knock out price) within the contract period, and the issuer bets that stock will fall below the strike price.
A long butterfly options strategy consists of the following options: Long 1 call with a strike price of (X − a) Short 2 calls with a strike price of X; Long 1 call with a strike price of (X + a) where X = the spot price (i.e. current market price of underlying) and a > 0. Using put–call parity a long butterfly can also be created as follows:
We can obtain a third view of the long box-spread by reading the table diagonally. A long box-spread can be viewed as a long strangle at one pair of strike prices, and , plus a short strangle at the same pair of strike prices. The long strangle contains the two long (buy) options. The short strangle contains the two short (sell) options. A ...
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". [1] In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The resulting regulatory actions led to the passing of the act on ...
A long condor consists of four options of the same type (all calls or all puts). [1] The options at the outer strikes are bought and the inner strikes are sold (and the reverse is done for a short condor). [1] The difference between the two lowest strikes must be the same as the difference between the two highest strikes. [1]
The company later received $3.6 million in funding from iTech Capital and other investors (TechStars, Right Side Capital Management, Irish Angels). [ 5 ] In May 2018, the company closed another round of venture investment for $37 million led by Insight Venture Partners , DRW Venture Capital and Jump Capital, acquiring TradeIT.
Most exchanges make their money by charging a commission which is calculated as a percentage of net winnings for each customer on each event, or market. Gamblers whose betting activities have been restricted by bookmakers (normally for winning too much money) are able to place bets of unrestricted size as long as one or more opposing customers are willing to match their bets.
Convergence trade is a trading strategy consisting of two positions: buying one asset forward—i.e., for delivery in future (going long the asset)—and selling a similar asset forward (going short the asset) for a higher price, in the expectation that by the time the assets must be delivered, the prices will have become closer to equal (will have converged), and thus one profits by the ...