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Buying Puts
Written by George Traganidas Topics: Options, Wealth Building
Buying a put gives you the right to sell the underlying stock at a set price (the strike price) by a specified date (the expiration date). Your maximum loss with a put is limited to what you pay for the option up front (the premium).
Buying put options is a great way to profit from a stock’s fall while putting less of your cash at risk. In addition, you can buy puts to protect a stock – one that you’re bullish on for the longer term – from a near-term price drop. Buying protective puts can also help make your portfolio immune to a market crash.[...]
Buying Calls
Written by George Traganidas Topics: Options, Wealth Building
Buying (“buy to open”) call options is a lot like purchasing stock: You believe that a company you understand well will grow in value over a certain period of time, and you want to generate a profit from it. When you buy a call, you have the right to buy the underlying stock at a set price (the strike price) by a specified date (the expiration date). If the stock price goes up, the value of its calls will too.
In theory, there’s no limit to how high a stock price can go — and in turn, call options can have unlimited profit potential.[...]
Options Glossary
Written by George Traganidas Topics: Options, Wealth Building
American style: Options contracts that can be exercised at any time after purchase and before the expiration date.
Assignment: When the options writer (also called the seller) is forced to buy (for a put writer) or sell (for a call writer) the underlying stock. Essentially, your counterparty has exercised its option contract, which you wrote, to buy or sell the underlying stock.
At-the-money: An option whose underlying stock is trading at its strike price.
Bearish: An options strategy (and outlook) that achieves its maximum payoff when the underlying stock drops in price. For example, if you are bearish on a stock you know well, you could buy a put or a bear put spread.[...]
Introduction to Options
Written by George Traganidas Topics: Options, Wealth Building
Why Options?
Options are excellent tools for generating income, protecting profits, hedging, and, ultimately, earning outsized gains. They can generate returns in flat markets, cushion the blow of down markets, and be outstanding performers in decent markets. Whatever your investment goals, options can be a powerful addition to your portfolio, used to hedge, to short, to produce income, and to obtain better buy and sell prices.
What Are Options?
Stock options formally debuted on the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1973, although option contracts (the right to buy or sell something in the future) have been around for thousands of years. An option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying stock at a set price (the strike price) by a set date (the expiration date). The option contract allows you to profit if a stock moves in your favor before the contract expires. Not all stocks have options, only those with enough interest and volume. There are only two types of options: calls and puts. A call appreciates when the underlying stock rises, so you buy a call if you are bullish on that company. A put appreciates when a stock declines. You buy a put if you believe a stock will fall or to hedge a stock that you already own.[...]
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