Bored with regular options? There’s always the exotic SPOT option: the single payment options trading option.
A SPOT option is a type of binary option, which has earned the nickname “all or nothing” option, since you either get a predetermined amount of money...or nothing.
With SPOT options, you set the rules: pick the payout you want, and what would have to happen in the market for you to get your payout. Set your own bets, basically. The broker will then calculate what they think the SPOT option is worth, and set up an offer with you, the trader.
The amount the broker offers is the spot premium: the upfront money you pay to buy a SPOT option. If the economic event occurs, you get the SPOT option payout. If not, you lose your spot premium, and you’re left out in the cold.
But hey, that’s the risk you’re dealing with when you set up a SPOT option. Riding in the fast lane wouldn’t be fun if it wasn’t a bit risky.
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finance a la shmoop what is a derivative? well it's derived it's a something taken
from something else like a derivative of hot weather is thirst a derivative of [Girl takes sip of glass of water on a beach]
hunger is well you know crankiness that's diva thing you get there...
derivative of a 1/32 quarterback rating in the NFL is like serious wealth yeah
yeah discount double shmoop yeah look for it be on there with aaron
and a derivative of a stock or bond or other security is a something which
derives its value based on the performance of that underlying security
there are basically two flavors of derivative put options ie the right to [Ice cream flavors appear]
sell a security at a given price over a given time period and a call option, ie
right to buy a security at a given price over a given time period
well the price of that option is derived from the price of the security and a few
other factors like strike prices and duration and all that stuff
colonel electric the downgraded new version of General Electric is trading [Colonel Electric appears in a suit]
for 25 bucks a share a derivative of its share price is sold in the form of a
call option with a $30 strike price expiring about 90 days from now on the
third Friday of the end of that month well investors pay a price albeit
probably a small one for the right to then pay 30 bucks a share for colonel [Call option appears for colonel electric]
electric at any time in the next 90 ish days until that option expires making the bet
that the stock will go well above 30 bucks a share in that time period that
call option is thus a derivative of the colonel electric primary stock price got
it if you really want to get personal well here's the ultimate form of
derivative [Baby laying down]
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