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Demystifying Options Trading – Call Options Explained For Everyone

When it comes to options trading, most people have been mystified by what seems like a lot of mumbo jumbo. This article will explain the investment terminology for Call Option in everyday terms that anyone can understand and appreciate.

To illustrate the concepts, let’s go on a shopping trip.

You’ve been thinking about buying a MacBook Air, Apple’s thinnest laptop, for a few days and you’ve done some research to find the best deal. You head for the mall on Saturday and spend most of the day trying to find the lowest price. This turns out to be $1799 for a 2.13 GHz MacBook Air.

Suddenly you realize that you have a dinner guest coming this evening and need to get groceries. Fortunately, the nearest store is right in the mall. Unfortunately, you discover that you forgot to bring your credit card and need to pay cash for the groceries. This leaves you with $150 plus some change.

On the way to your car you discover another electronics store, and to your amazement, the 2.13 GHz MacBook Air is advertised at $1499. Not believing your eyes, you go in and the store manager confirms the price but says that they have only one unit left. How are you going to nail down that price without sufficient cash and without a credit card?

You ask the store manager if he will hold the unit for you in return for $100, and that you will return in two hours to purchase at $1499. If you are not back in two hours, the store manager can sell it to someone else.

You make a written agreement, signed by both parties, that the unit cannot be sold to anyone else for next 2 hours but only to you at $1499 in exchange for $100, and that the $100 is forfeit if you do not return within 2 hours.

You have just engaged in “Options trading” The following options trading terminology should now make a lot more sense to you.

Options Contract - is what the note is called that you and the store manager just signed.

Underlying (underlying stock/share) – is the MacBook Air 2.13 GHz that you have agreed to pay ($1499).

Strike Price – is the agreed upon purchase price (in this example $1499).

Call Option - the type of contract in this example is a “Call Option.” It gives you the RIGHT but not the OBLIGATION to buy the MacBook Air. In order to exercise the “right to buy” you must return within 2 hours, and the store manager must sell it to you at $1499. If you change your mind, you do “not have an obligation” to buy. You simply don’t return and lose your $100 hold money.

Option Expiry – for this example the expiry is 2 hours, meaning that the option contract will cease to exist after 2 hours.

Option Premium – this is the $100 hold money you paid. It’s the cost to enter into this contract. This is not a deposit against the purchase price, but money the store will keep either way for providing you with the convenience. So, your effective purchase price will be $1599, which is still better than the $1799 “best deal” you had identified earlier, and it is the reason you entered into the contract.

Long Call and Short Call – for this example you have the “Long Call” since you are buying the contract for $100, and the store manager has the “Short Call” since he is selling the contract and gets to keep the $100.

Now let’s evaluate the risk exposure for both parties to the contract:

Your risk is limited to the $100 hold money you paid, i.e., a Long Call Option buyer’s risk exposure is limited to the premium paid. If, hypothetically, the price for the MacBook Air tumbles to $1000, then there is no way you would return and purchase it for $1499! If, hypothetically, the price shoots up to $2599 within the 2 hours, then your immediate profit would be $1000.

The store manager, on the other hand, has unlimited risk and limited profit potential. A Short Call Option seller’s risk exposure is unlimited while the profit potential is limited to the premium received. Yes, he gets to keep the $100 in case of a price drop where the buyer is not returning to purchase, but if the price for the MacBook Air shoots up to $2599 within the 2 hours, he stands to lose a lot of money because he cannot sell it to someone else for the revised price.

Hopefully, this will have taken some of the mystery out of options trading and its lingo. As illustrated by our example, we are engaged in these types of transactions in some form or other in our daily lives. We’re just not aware of it. As you gain knowledge and practice, it will come to you quite naturally.

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This was an article from our series ‘Covert Life of Investment‘.

About the Author

Sujoy Bhattacharya is the founder and CEO of TradeGreeks LLC. TradeGreeks.com is a one stop options trading and options investing information and education Web site full of option trading investment ideas, helpful tutorials and advice designed to help battered investors find predictable profits.

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