Accounting, Banking & FinanceUnderstanding the Market Participants- The Call BuyerJune 27, 201511 CommentsIn the last discussion, we tried to understand the Options market from the point of view of the Call writer,…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceUnderstanding the Market Participants- Call WriterJune 26, 201517 CommentsThe Trader who enters into the options market can trade in two products- Calls and Puts. Within these two products,…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceMargins and Leverage- An IntroductionJune 20, 201513 CommentsOptions, as we already know, are instruments for risk management, but at the same time, they can be as destructive…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceCriterion for listing of Individual Stock OptionsJune 20, 201511 CommentsThe National Stock Exchange, or the NSE henceforth, has been leading exchange with regards to derivatives. It provides both Index…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceOptions Expiry DatesJune 18, 201510 CommentsDerivatives, namely Options, Futures, Forwards and Swaps, are time bound instruments. Like we have already studied, they have an expiry…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceComposition of Options PremiumsJune 14, 20157 CommentsWe have already understood that when we trade in options, we trade in premiums. Now this premium has two components-…
EconomicsOptions PayoffsJune 13, 20158 CommentsThe payoff concerned with options different from that of conventional securities like common stock or shares, where the payoff is…
Accounting, Banking & FinanceBasics about OptionsJune 8, 201517 CommentsIn an introduction to Options, we must state that options are a type of derivatives. This leads us to the…