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Selling this call option in the market at
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call option) or to deliver stock (in the case of
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immediately on receipt (in the case of a call option) or already
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The writers of call options are required to
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If a writer’s call option is uncovered (i
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premium income received from the writing of the call option
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of the call option itself
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In September of 1996, I purchased call options against a stock that
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finance are the purchase (call option) or sale (put option) of an asset
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange was established and spurred the development of exchange trading in put and call options
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Now a significant part of the volume of trading on the stock exchanges and options exchanges arose from hedges and spreads, transactions in which traders attempted to profit from mispricing of put and call options
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The purchase of a call option can be seen as a bet that a stock will rise in price, whereas the purchase of a put option can be seen as a bet on a price decline
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The bad news was that the advent of exchange-traded put and call options affected the amount of and the motivation for odd lot trading
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Where odd lot transactions had previously been investment choices of small investors, now they included a large number of transactions that were part of hedges involving put or call options
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The good news was that now there was a new opportunity to observe the opinions of investors as reflected in the activity of put and call options traded on options exchanges
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So investors looking to hedge their portfolios would buy call options on the VIX, hoping these would appreciate when stocks slide
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If you think volatility is going higher, you can buy VIX call options
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And if the investor is selling call options, he’s doing something bearish, so contrary you wants to trade bullishly
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A “buy-write,” also called a covered call, generally is considered to be an investment strategy in which an investor buys a stock or a basket of stocks, and also sells call options that correspond to the stock or basket of stocks
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The BXM is a passive total return index based on selling the near-term, at-the-money S&P 500 Index (SPX) call option against the S&P 500 stock index portfolio each month, on the day the current contract expires
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Selling call options against stocks has always been popular with investors looking to monetize their shares’ upside potential
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It’s vaguely similar to trying to chart a call option
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In-the-money: In a call option, when the asset’s market price is above the strike price, it’s in-the-money
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Out-of-the-money: When the market price is below the strike price in a call option, that option is a money-loser: It’s out-of-the-money
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Call options: Calling all investors
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When you buy a call option, you’re being bullish and are expecting prices to increase — call options are similar to having a long position
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When you sell a call option, you expect prices to fall
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A put option is the exact opposite of a call option because it gives you the right, but not the obligation, to sell a security at some point in the future for a predetermined price
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Here are the possible combinations of buying and selling put and call options, accompanied by their corresponding market sentiment:
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call option: A contract in the futures markets that gives the holder (buyer) of the contract the right, but not the obligation, to purchase an underlying asset at a specific point in time at a specific price
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A call option is the opposite of a put option
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A put option is the opposite of a call option
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See also call option
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In this straightforward strategy, you would sell (write) a call option for stocks that you already own, or purchase shares at the same time as you write the call, known as a buy-write
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You receive cash in the form of the premium up front and your hope is that the call option is never exercised
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The premium paid for doing this should more or less equal the amount you received when you sold your original call option
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The investor would buy call options on a stock at a certain strike price while simultaneously selling a call on the same stock at a higher strike price
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In this strategy, you would purchase (or sell) both a call option and a put option on a stock with the same strike price and the same expiration date
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In this strategy, the investor sells an out-of-the-money put option, buys another out-of-the money put option with a lower strike price, sells an out-of-the-money call option, and buys another out-of-the-money call option at a higher strike price
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In this strategy, the investor purchases an out-of-the money put option while at the same time writing an out-of-the-money call option on the same stock with the same expiration date
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In the strangle strategy, the investor buys both a put option and a call option, both usually out-of-the-money, on the same stock with the same expiration date, but with different strike prices
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In-the-money (ITM): A call option is in-the-money if the strike price is less than the market price of the underlying security
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Naked call: A call option written on a security that you do not own
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Out-of-the-money (OTM): A call option is out-of-the-money if the strike price is greater than the market price of the underlying security
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Out-of-the-money options, especially call options were typically overvalued, compared to the closer-to-the-money options, sometimes exceeding twice the volatility level
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It is our view that one reason for this is because of small traders demand for low priced call options in bullish markets
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Implied volatility levels of out of the money call options in the grains can trade at levels 50% higher than the in the money options
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Therefore, we recommended an excellent “Calendar Spread” of purchasing in-the-money February call options, while selling out of the money October options that were close to expiration and entering the period of their most severe time decay
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An option buyer purchases an Upjohn Jan 40 call option at 3, with three months to run
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Therefore, they discovered that the writing of naked call options was one of the optimum strategies available in the options market, generating over a 10% annual return
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The results of their strategy, based on the shorting of warrants on the Stock Exchange (which is almost the same process as writing call options on the Options Exchange), were presented at the beginning of this text in Chapter 1
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Thus, one cannot blithely buy a large number of call options and expect to profit, for the market may drop instead
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For example, call option purchases provided positions with an excellent risk/reward ratio in silver in 1987, and in the grains in 1988
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Volatility on both puts and calls had increased dramatically during the previous week, and when it was determined that no significant changes were going to occur, in one day, put and call options lost over a forth of their value
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In a bullish market, option premium is almost always higher than bear markets, since small public traders prefer to be long on a market rather than short, thus creating a demand for call options
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If you sense that this could be the beginning of a real bull market, you might be tempted to get involved by purchasing call options
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To illustrate, an at-the-money OEX call option with 50 days to go is worth 5-3/4 at a 12% volatility level, but is worth 7-5/8 at a 16% volatility level
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A 15-points-out-of-the-money OEX call option with 50 days to go is worth 1-1/4 at a 12% volatility level, and is worth 2-1/2 at a 16% volatility level
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Covered writers should be very interested in finding stocks such as these, because by consistently writing call options at slightly higher premiums than they ought to be they can achieve much higher overall returns
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Because put and call options of the same strike and expiration have roughly the same volatility, they also have equal vega
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For example, during the first 3 weeks in July, the S&P 500 dropped almost 2000 points, and while all call options lost value, many out of the money puts still lost value, because of their overvalued premium and time value decay
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Sample Function Call OPTIONS TIMEZONE= Result
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The only value-investing rationale for venture capital or leveraged buyouts might be if they were regarded as mispriced call options
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1 Alternatively, you could buy back the call option, but you would have to take a loss on it—and options can have even higher trading costs than stocks
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For example, during a bull market, an option investor will invest with the purchase of a call option, and as the underlying investment increases in value, so will the option value
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Then, the market recovered starting in April 2003 to surpass the 1999 highs in mid-October 2007, which gave you a great opportunity to use call options as a bullish leverage investment
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As the buyer of one call option contract, you have the right to purchase 100 shares of the underlying stock on or before your selected expiration date
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If you buy a call option at a strike price of $30, then you have the right to purchase the stock for $30 per share
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If that was the case and you were looking to purchase a call option to profit from an upward move or a put option to profit on a down move, then you wouldn’t trade the current January option because there isn’t enough time for the stock to move without risking the cost of the option
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5, you’ll see that we have selected a call option strike price of $100, which shows a current intrinsic value of $9
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This means that if you were to purchase the $100 call option and paid $10
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Using the call option example, you should remember that this intrinsic value increases with the stock and decreases when the stock drops
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7 shows the April $115 call option for IBM with an intrinsic value of $4
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This would be your cost to purchase this April $115 call option based upon the bid price of $6
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12, you’ll notice that the open interest for a $90 call option is a total of 183 contracts, and the 125 call option has a total open interest of 167 contracts
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Now, as you look at the chart, you’ll see number one represents the call options, and number two represents the put options
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Say that you were looking at an IBM 125 call option for the month of March, and you were interested in either buying or selling this option
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It is said that when your chosen strike price for a call option is lower than the current price of the stock, your option is in-the-money (ITM) because a portion of your call option investment has intrinsic value
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Remember, when you purchase a call option, you have the right, not the obligation, to buy the stock at a set price known as the strike price on or before a certain date, know as the expiration date
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If you’re thinking that successful investors purchase call options in order to have the right to buy the stock, you’re not thinking like a true leverage investor
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For example, let’s say you purchase a call option (bullish) with a strike price of $50 and the current price of the stock is about $50
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Looking at the call option chart while the stock price is $158
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80, you’ll notice that the $160 call option is trading at a price of $10
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As you can imagine, your odds of success when purchasing out-of-the-money call options is very small, yet many uneducated investors will choose an out-of-the-money option because they cost less than an at-the-money or in-the-money option
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Let’s look at a call option chart for an out-of-the-money call option using a current stock price of $158
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As you’ll notice within this example, all of the out-of-the-money call option strike prices are higher than the current price of the stock ($158
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The concept is the same as call options except the visual is opposite; when the actual price of the stock is below your chosen strike price for a put option, your option is in-the-money instead of out-of-the-money
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When purchasing call options, you’re looking for the stock to move which direction? A
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If you were to purchase a call option with a strike price of $90 and the stock was trading at $94, what would this option be considered? A
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When purchasing a call option, you can lose more than the cost of the option
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Call options are positive and put options are negative, which means that a call option will increase in value a certain amount as the stock moves up, and a put option will increase in value a certain amount as the underlying stock drops in value
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When determining which call option to purchase, you’ll need to give serious consideration to how far the stock will increase before it reaches its expiration date
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Knowing that the $50 call option has a delta of $
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6, we’ll look at the call options for the strike prices ranging from 170 to 190
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The 170 call option has a probability of expiring percentage of 45
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To better explain the use of this powerful tool keep in mind that the probability percentage given for a call option tells us the percentage of the stock staying below our chosen price come expiration day
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To give you an easy concept let’s say that you were looking to buy a call option on XYZ stock, and it was trading at $46 per share
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As a call option approaches its expiration date, the option that will have the greatest decrease in theta value will be the option that is what? A
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Making the Call: Buying Call Options
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As an example, if we were to purchase a June $70 call option for $5 and the stock moved to $80, the $70 strike price would have a minimum value of $10; so, instead of buying the stock for $70 per share when it is worth $80 per share, we would sell the option for $10 to close out the trade
