Questions tagged [options]
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What happens to SIVB put option holders?
As title implies - I own put options (Strike Price $125, exp. March 17 2023). I am wondering what happens to other owners of put options.
As we all know now, SIVB is in receivership. I do not own ...
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How can I bet against a particular stock in relation to the market?
I’ve heard people doing spread trades when they think one stock will do better/worse in comparison to another stock or index. I’m looking for details on exactly how this is done.
Is there a particular ...
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Is there limit on number of Covered Calls Transactions?
I have 100 shares of XYZ.
I felt today it’s going to be Bearish Trend, so I opened a position, STO call at $10.00 (2 Weeks Expiry). Next day premium value is $5.00 and it’s going to be Bullish again. ...
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Why are there no exchange traded options on 3x leveraged ETNs
Since these would help me manage risk in my personal financial portfolio, why are there no exchange traded options on 3x leveraged ETNs?
Is there a prohibition that the SEC is perpetuating? Is there ...
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Calculating maximum loss on options spread including early assignment and margin calls
Most trading platforms provide a maximum loss calculation for options spreads, but this does not account for the possibility of early assignment which could lead to losses from margin calls, overnight ...
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Can companies raise cash by selling covered call options on their treasury stock?
Suppose a company has lots of treasury shares. Can it raise cash by selling call options covered by the treasury stock? If the stock price ends below the strike price of the calls sold, then the ...
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Stock Options in Exchange for Salary
I received an offer letter with with the option to convert part of the salary to stock options as per the below table. Base salary is ₪33K/month (Israeli Shekel). Be aware of '₪' vs '$' in some ...
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Reporting of 1256 Based Options
I live in the United States. In 2015 I have traded several 1256 based options. The details of each trade were not included in my 1099 and not imported into Turbo Tax. I understand that this is to be ...
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Deducting option trading losses for income tax filing
I am in India. Let's say I have an income for 25 lakhs and my losses in option trading for 10 lakhs. How to file ITR for the same? Will my losses in option can be carry forward for 8 years?
Suppose I ...
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Can you trade options with market scoring rules?
In a double-auction market, buyers and sellers are always balanced in number -- a traditional market-maker in such markets doesn't really hold any assets/take any position long-term.
However, with a ...
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How is implied volatility on future treasuries used to expect Forex volatility?
I was listening to some traders talk amongst themselves. One emphasized the importance treasury implied Vol as a useful indicator for forex vol/trading.
I don't totally see the connection. I have a ...
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What option Greek is responsible for this?
Suppose you’re day trading and the underlying is going up. You have a want a put though as you think it’s going down long term.
If you bought a 0DTE put, and the underlying moves in the opposite just ...
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Are VIXW options PM-settled like SPXW?
Cboe explicitly defines the difference between the options on SPX as AM-settlement and SPXW as PM-settlement, but for VIX and VIXW, they say they're both AM-settled.
I can see in my trading platform ...
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Tax treatment of underlying asset in 1256 options contract if exercised
I've talked to a tax professional but got a very uncertain answer and can't find any examples online, only examples are of the option expiring worthless rather than in the money.
Example:
1 Bitcoin ...
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How will the probability change with new restriction(Red Zone)
If I sold an OTM put option(-16 delta) the probability of touching the short put strike is 32%(i.e 2*16). The risk profile is represented by the picture above.
How can I calculate the new probability ...
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How does expiration/assignment work in synthetic covered call
What happens if I let a short call expire worthless on a synthetic long stock I've purchased.
Here's my scenario.
Bought a CALL @ 870 and sold a PUT @ 870 both expiring in 177 days. Also sold a CALL @ ...
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Availability of proceeds from the exercise of a long put
If I bought a put option in a cash account, it expired ITM and was exercised automatically on Friday, could I use the proceeds on Monday or would I have to wait T+2 working days until Wednesday for ...
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Covered call selling and wash sale or potential IRS problems?
I have a stock position that went south really quick and I have been holding on for about 5 months now. My last average down was 4 months ago.
My average price is $12 and the stock is currently ...
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Where Option Credit gets added
I have a question, when you sell options (call or puts) you get credit upfront, but my question is where you can see these credit amounts? In "Stocks & Options" or in "Brokerage ...
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Non-US citizen/resident trying to begin trading options and futures
I'm from Brazil and I already trade shares, options and futures here for ~5 years in the Brazilian stock market. I began trading shares in the US stock market a few months ago using the Passfolio ...
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Selling short call against a long call (a LEAP) when the long call is already in profits. Is it Constructive Sale?
Let's take these hypothetical trades
On 08/01/2020: Bought AAPL Jan-2022 100C at $30 (Long call)
On 08/30/2020: Sold AAPL Jan-2022 110C at $50 (Short Call). By this date, 08/30/2020, before my short ...
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Is it possible to see market data for options trading?
Is it possible to see market data for options trading, i.e. that shows all placed option orders?
Some brokerage platforms provide "level 2" order book information of all placed stock orders ...
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Does selling a related option affect the holding period for tax purposes?
Imagine the following scenario:
I purchased 3 LEAP call options on XYZ in 2019 with a strike price of $200.00, expiring over a year from purchase in 2021.
I also sold 3 call options on XYZ in 2019 ...
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Settlement Period for options pre 1993
I was reading Settlement Period and wondering what was the settlement duration for options pre 1993. For equity/etf, it seems it was five days.
So for options, was it four days ? , any verifiable ...
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Warrant extension - would this have any tax implications?
If someone has warrants to purchase shares in a private C corp in the US, if they were about to expire and they got the company to agree to extend them, does this have any tax implications? These are ...
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What is the effect of a short stock position on the value of an option?
I'm reading the book "Option Volatility and Pricing" by Natenberg and there is a paragraph I'm having trouble understanding.
Chapter 7 (Risk Measurement 1), Page 98, Paragraph 2:
The value of a ...
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Computing risk-neutral probability of spot rates
I am trying to use a binomial model to price options wtih bonds as the underlying security.If the current term structure is flat at 6%, but next year, I assume the one-year spot rate will be either 5% ...
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No margin account and put expires ITM
This question is a followup to a recent and similar question on buying a put: When a long PUT expires in-the-money, whose shares are being sold?.
Suppose I don't have a margin account, and I buy a ...
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How to consider the effect of margin call risk in a gamma scalping strategy
I am trying to tippy toe into volatility trading and volatility strategies.
So I was reading Sheldon Natenberg where he starts off with a portfolio of long ATM call and short 50 shares of stock to ...
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FX options for retail trader
I would like to trade options on the FX market, say EURUSD and GBPUSD. I have seen that there are options on the CME that have FX futures as underlying and also some options on spot on the ...
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References/terms to search for regarding financial instrument universe selection
When attempting to profit off of the market in one way or another, an entity, be it a fund, individual investor, institution, etc., must first decide on what actual financial instruments are to be ...
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DOW Mini Futures Options Liquidity - Symbol YM
I am trading on the Interactive Brokers TWS platform. That is the name of the broker and the platform they offer that I use. I have noticed that there is almost no liquidity on the YM Mini option ...
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Thursday morning open interest data for newly listed weekly options
The open interest data is available for the newly listed weekly options during the market hours on Thursdays. Yet the open interest data supposedly gets updated once per day after the market close. ...
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How to trade European style option on Fidelity?
My goal is to sell European-style put options on TLT. How can I go about doing that on the Fidelity platform? So far I have been able to find an index that tracks atm putwrite strategy - PTLT index ...
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Company options, price gone down but value gone up - is it a good deal?
This summer I signed a options deal with the company I work for that gives me the rights to buy shares 3 years from signing date. The deal is that I have to rights to buy X shares to price at signing ...
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'Inversion' of option chain: calls are more expensive than puts above the strike price! GME
Over the past two days there has been a weird phenomena on GameStop's options where the call options are more expensive than the put options above the strike price. I would have imagined that some ...
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How to calculate break even price on delta hedged portfolio?
The underlying currently trades at 10. Suppose you have a portfolio consisting of:
1 Call at strike 11 with premium 0.4
A short position of 25 shares
Calculate the break even prices of this ...
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How are SPX index option prices determined in the 15-minute period after the close?
There are SPX index options that expire every single day now (Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays). I know that SPX options will trade until 4:00pm ET on the day of expiration. ...
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Why do the quarterly "PM settled" options for the S&P 500 futures have about 1000 points between each strike price?
I'm looking at the options chain for the S&P 500 futures. Almost every option contract I look at, whether it's a daily option, weekly option, monthly option, or quarterly "AM settled" ...
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Why doesn't open interest for an option update throughout the day?
When viewing an option within an option chain browser/UI, why is it that open interest only updates day-by-day, yet volume is updated minute-by-minute?
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Futures Options: Options Expiration vs. Underlying Delivery
Does the expiration of a futures option always determine the delivery date of the underlying, in particular does the option always expire into the earliest-delivering futures contract?
For example, /...
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May I get more than the strike price difference when roll up an ITM call option?
I have an in-the-money call option that expires shortly and I see further upward potential of the underlying stock, so I decide to roll over to a longer expiration date.
Now, if I choose to roll up to ...
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Is there charges for unfilled option
I failed to get filled on an option trade and was canceled. Will I be charge a fee still or only when an order is filled? Thanks.
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How to calculate break even price of Bull Put Spread and Bear Call Spread
I need some help confirming if I am calculating the break even price correctly for both Bear Call Spread and Bull Put Spread.
For Bear Call Spread, I have:
breakEvenPrice = longLegStrike+(longLegCost-...
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Price of a Call Option as you Increase the time periods
I'm pricing call options at the moment and seeing how call option prices change depending solely on the periods of volatility. In one case the stock changes every month, the other it changes every ...
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Order rejected: Today's expiring option series on this symbol are Closing Only
Rejected Buy to Open 1
Order rejected: Today's expiring option series on this symbol are Closing Only.
TDA gives me this response when I try to buy 1 call option OTM The volume and open ...
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Does OTC Markets offer options
I am just curious whether OTC Markets offer options. For example, I just searched OTCMKTS: SIUIF, Semiconductor Manufacturing Int'l. It seems that this stock does not have options to trade. Is this a ...
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Do compound options trade on exchanges or do they only trade over-the-counter?
Do options on options (i.e. compound options) trade on derivatives exchanges? Or are they only traded over-the-counter? If they do trade on exchanges, which exchanges do they trade on?
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What happens to my Long Put (Bought Puts) when company file chapter 11
What happens to my long put that i buy for Dec 2020 if the company files for chapter 11 in Nov 2020 or before option expiration.
Would I be able to sell those long puts to get maximum reward for ...
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How are options used to avoid capital gains taxes on shares?
This question is based on this quote from another online resource. I had been reading about common methods of tax avoidance for the super wealthy, and this one didn't make sense to me.
One cunning ...
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