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More Terms

• Open Interest
• Margin (Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk (SPAN), Exposure Margin)
• Lot
• Bid
• Ask
• Bid Ask Spread
• Candle Light Diagram
• VaR (Value at Risk)
Financial
Derivatives:
Options
Options
• A call option is an option to buy a certain asset by a certain date for a
certain price (the strike price).
• Right to Buy
• Obligation to Sell

• A put option is an option to sell a certain asset by a certain date for a


certain price (the strike price).
• Right to Sell
• Obligation to Buy
Terms in Options
• Strike Price… • Implied Volatility (Comes from
Black Scholes Formula-Post Mid
• Price of Option… Term)
• Last Traded Price (LTP) • In the Money (Strike < Spot in
• Long on Call… Call and Vice Versa in Put)

• Short on Call…
• Out of the Money (Strike > Spot in
Call and Vice Versa in Put)
• Long on Put…
• At the Money (Strike = Spot)
• Short on Put…
American v s European Options
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• An American option can be exercised at any time during its life.


• A European option can be exercised only at maturity.
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