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A Basic Options Trading Glossary – The Term You Need To Know When Trading Options Successfully

A Basic Options Trading Glossary – The Term You Need To Know When Trading Options Successfully Options trading is a complex form of investment. It is at the sharp end of the financial market so to help you understand the subject we have provided you with a basic options trading glossary. When you buy an [...]

Basic Operational Management Glossary part 3 from POME by Gautam Koppala

Defence Document – A document that a company’s shareholders receive which explains why an offer to buy the company should be rejected. Deficit Financing – When a government borrows money because of a shortage of funds from taxes. This usually results in pushing up interest rates. Deflation – Economic decline typified by falling costs of [...]

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An individual who sells an option short. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We are pleased to provide you with a simple, yet very powerful learning application that is designed to assist you in learning all terms and phrases understood by successful traders. Go here to get your free copy now >>> OptionsLexis Software Free Download

Warrant

A security issued by a corporation that gives the holder the right to purchase securities at a specific price within a specified time limit (or sometimes with no time limit). ________ are sometimes like call options, but the main differences are that warrants typically have much longer lives whereas options tend to expire relatively soon, [...]

Volume

The total number of shares of stock or option contracts traded on a given day. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We are pleased to provide you with a simple, yet very powerful learning application that is designed to assist you in learning all terms and phrases understood by successful traders. Go here to get your [...]

Volatility Skew

This arises when the implied volatilities of options in one month on one stock are not equal across the different strike prices. You should be aware of ___________ because it can dramatically change the risk of your position when the price of the stock begins to move. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We are pleased [...]

Volatility

Generically, _______ is the size of the changes in the price of the underlying security. In practice, _______ is presented as either historical or implied. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We are pleased to provide you with a simple, yet very powerful learning application that is designed to assist you in learning all terms and [...]

Vix (Volatility Index)

Created by the CBOE, the _______ is an index of volatility calculated from the extrinsic value of out of the money SPX index options. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We are pleased to provide you with a simple, yet very powerful learning application that is designed to assist you in learning all terms and phrases [...]

Vertical

An option position composed of either all calls or all puts, with long options and short options at two different strikes. The options are all on the same stock and of the same expiration, with the quantity of long options and the quantity of short options netting to zero. ————– Free Options Lexis Software: We [...]

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