Puts are trading roughly 1.75 times to each single call option in play this afternoon.
Approximately 4.1 put options are changing hands on HSBC for each single call option in action today.
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In effect, executives and employees were given a call option on the markets by the banking system.
Often, when a trader short sells a stock, he will purchase a call option on that same stock.
Ariad Pharmaceuticals (ARIA) is interesting, with a massive 183% stock move and an average call option return of 35%.
Right now SIRI represents simply a solid call option on the automobile industry.
For example, Verizon (VZ) currently yields 5.4% and selling a roughly at the money one-year call option yields another 7%.
Despite receiving its first analyst downgrade since March, Apple Inc. (AAPL) remained extremely popular among call option traders on Monday.
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The value of a share in Viacom or Seagram is in part determined by the value of that particular long-shot call option.
The theory views equity as a call option on a firm's assets.
It so happens that markets already provide this information, in the form of the premium of a call option on the company's share-price.
To profit from a housing-induced drop in short-term rates, buy the iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond Fund (80, SHY) or its call option.
Investors are trading more than two put options on Wells Fargo this afternoon for each single call option in action on the stock today.
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When you buy a mortgage-backed bond, you are in effect buying a straight bond and then giving away a call option to the homeowners.
But you can think of, say, a fiber-optic-equipment company as a call option on the possibility that its particular technology will beat out rival technologies.
Options traders are exchanging roughly 1.6 put options on the stock today for each single call option in play as of 12:30pm in New York.
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Using gold mines as an example, he said when you buy shares in the company, you also receive a free, long-term call option on gold.
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Put options on the XLF are changing hands more than 10 times for each single call option in action as of 11:30 am in New York.
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You have basis in the call option that you bought, but your obligation under the call option that you wrote does not meet the definition of a liability.
In general, one buys a call option, or call, when the stock price is expected to rise, or sells a call when the stock price is expected to fall.
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But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
Taking a closer look at this activity, we find that the weekly September 30, 15 strike call option is the most active, with more than 3, 500 contracts changing hands on open interest of just 733 contracts.
The idea is that you sell a foreign currency call option and use the proceeds of the sale to purchase a foreign currency call option in the same currency with the same counterparty and the same expiration date.
The last two columns show, out of all those positive straddle trades, how many would have been profitable due to the call option (in other words, because the stock increased in price), and how many were profitable due to the put.
In the case of the oil company, for instance, the cost of land corresponds to the premium (or down-payment) on a call option, and the extra investment needed to start production to its strike price (at which the option is exercised).
Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
His statement differed from comments by some other Democratic leaders, who call the public option essential for any health care legislation.
Republican leaders repeatedly call the public option a first step toward a government takeover of health care, a claim derided by Democrats as deliberately misleading.
Liberal Democrats call the public option the only way to truly reform the health care system by ensuring people have access to affordable coverage and providing low-cost competition to private insurers.
We noted, however, the sustained level of trading interest in Beazer's January '08 option call series, with the buying of some 5, 965 lots midweek in the January '08 call at the 30.0 strike, as well as healthy interest in the 25.0 January straddle.
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