Many people dare not trade option, and the major hindrance to them is that they feel that options trading is complicated with lots of strategy involved. Besides, option price is not as straight forward as stock price, it involves a series of calculation and formula. In fact, the one that come out with the option premium formula had gotten the Nobel Price for economic, they are no other than Myron Scholes and Robert Merton.
Though I agree that there is certain level of complication, but the advantages of option would have motivated us to learn more about options trading.
Basically, option is just a contract, this contract is the right for you to buy or sell the stock at certain price within certain time frame, but without obligation. You can imagine that option is just like an agreement between you and the seller of a house, this agreement is for you to purchase the house at certain price, but it has expiry date, and no body can be sure about the future price of that house.
The house price is $100k, it cost you $5k in order to draft out an agreement, and it said that from now until 6 months later, you can buy this house at $100k. You believe that the house price will go up within 6 months. 2 months later, the house price has gone up to $110k, some one (let's call him A) approach you to buy your contract because he does not want to buy the house with the total sum, therefore he will pay you $15k to purchase your agreement and he think that the house price will go up further within the next 4 months. 2 months has passed and the house price stabilized at $110k, A decided to sell his contract to some one (let's say B) at $15k. 2 month later, the house price has dropped from $110K to $80K. Instead of losing $30k, B made a loss of only $15K (which is the contract price) and the contract expired worthlessly by now.
Option to buy a stock is call option, and put option is to sell the stock. The benefit of option is the power of leverage, you have the right to buy or sell within that period of time without paying for the full amount. This helps you to minimize the risk.
The targeted stock price in option is strike price, it is also known as exercise price. If the stock is above the strike price, your call option is in the money, otherwise, your option is out of money. For put option to be in the money, the stock has to be below the strike price. The premium of the option is total sum of intrinsic and time value.
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