Long - Term Equity AnticiPation Securities ®, or LEAPS ® are a type of
equity options contract that have expiration dates of up to three years.
For example,
an equity options contract is generally based on 100 shares of the underlying stock.
Exercise price: The increments between the strike prices that are available on
an equity options contract depend on the current market price of the underlying stock.
Not exact matches
Ideally, benefits of this special 8 (a) program to the protà © gà © firm — which can have only one mentor at a time — will include technical and management assistance;
options to enter into joint - venture business agreements with mentor firms to compete for government
contracts; financial assistance in the form of
equity or loans; and qualification for other SBA assistance programs.
But rather than idly criticizing the financial industry's
options pricing methods, «we put our money where our mouth was by entering into our
equity put
contracts,» Buffett writes.
The common element is that any long position taken in a specific
equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an «overvalued» member of the same sector (long / short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures
contract (index arbitrage) or an
option contract (volatility arbitrage).
Options are by far the most common form of derivative an
option is a
contract given to a buyer by a seller an
option to buy or sell a particular asset... This is them most common form of an
equity derivative.
ICE offers
equity index and single stock futures including
contracts on FTSE indexes, MSCI indexes, Russell Indexes, single stock futures and
options and ICE Block
contracts.
LEAP stands for «long - term
equity anticipation», and it refers to a class of
options that have longer expiry dates (dates on which the
contract expires, or deadlines for action on an
option) than traditional
options.
The price of
options to protect against losses on
equities from China to India and Brazil has surged to its highest since 2009 relative to U.S.
contracts.
With Bitcoin now having been in existence since 2009 and become a sizeable instrument by market cap comparable to some of the largest listed companies on the U.S
equity markets, it comes as a little surprise that futures exchanges have moved ahead on offering investors with the
option of Bitcoin futures
contracts.
Commissions are only $ 4.95 per
equity trade as well as per
option trade, though the latter also costs an additional $ 0.65 per
contract.
The HSBC Advance account charges $ 6.88 flat per
equity trade and $ 6.88 + $ 1.25 per
contract for
options trades.
Options contracts are traded at the same rates as stocks and other
equities, with the exception that $ 1.25 will be added for each
contract.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, a section 1256
contract can include a foreign currency
contract, a nonequity
option, a regulated futures
contract, a dealer
equity option or a dealer securities futures
contract.
The writer collects a premium of $ 100 because an
equity option contains 100
options per
contract.
LEAPS, or long - term
equity anticipation securities, are basically
options contracts with an expiration date longer than one year.
Equity trades often carry a per trade fee known as a trade commission, while
options trades include both a per trade fee and a per
contract fee.
However, Berkshire is not required to post collateral with respect to most of its credit default and
equity index put
option contracts and at September 30, 2008 and December 31, 2007, Berkshire had posted no collateral with counterparties as security on these
contracts.
But what about the much larger
equity index put
option contracts, for which Berkshire was paid $ 4.85 billion and had suffered noncash «losses» of $ 1.9 billion through Q3?
Stock trades cost $ 5.00 per
equity (not per share), and
options trades cost $ 5.00 per
option plus $.50 per
contract (100 shares).
Unlike
equity - based
options, each 1256
option contract held by a taxpayer at the end of the year is treated as if it were sold for its fair market value or mark - to - market (MTM) on the last business day of the year, and gains or losses are treated as either short - term or long - term capital gains.
The common element is that any long position taken in a specific
equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an «overvalued» member of the same sector (long / short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures
contract (index arbitrage) or an
option contract (volatility arbitrage).
A sophisticated computerized trading strategy whereby a portfolio manager attempts to earn a profit from the price spreads between a portfolio of
equities similar or identical to those underlying a designated stock index, e.g., the Standard & Poor 500 Index, and the price at which futures
contracts (or their
options) on the index trade in financial futures markets.
For
equity options, this date is usually the Saturday following the third Friday of the month listed in the
contract.
For many
equity index and Interest rate future
contracts (as well as for most
equity options), this happens on the third Friday of certain trading months.
You will pay no per -
contract or base commission charge when you buy to close an
equity option priced at 10 cents or less.
To qualify for $ 4.95 commissions for
equity and
options trades and a $ 0.50 fee per
options contract, you must execute at least 30
equity or
options trades per quarter.
Berkshire also provides guarantees in connection with long - term
equity index put
option and credit default
contracts entered into by a subsidiary.
They offer $ 4.95 for each
equity or
option trade (with 65 cents per
option contract).
Ally Invest offers volume / balance pricing of $ 3.95 per
equity trade and 50 cents per
options contract for users who make 30 or more trades in the prior calendar quarter and / or maintain an average daily balance of more than $ 100,000 in the prior calendar quarter.
Volume / Balance Pricing Ally Invest offers volume / balance pricing of $ 3.95 per
equity trade and 50 cents per
options contract for users who make 30 or more trades in the prior calendar quarter and / or maintain an average daily balance of more than $ 100,000 in the prior calendar quarter.
Select Pricing - Ally Invest offers special pricing of $ 3.95 per
equity trade and 50 cents per
options contract for users who make 30 or more trades in the prior calendar quarter and / or maintain an average daily balance of more than $ 100,000 in the prior calendar quarter.
The Fund may also engage in other currency transactions such as currency futures
contracts, currency swaps,
options on currencies, or
options on currency futures, or it may engage in other types of transactions, such as the purchase and sale of exchange - listed and OTC put and call
options on securities,
equity and fixed - income indices and other financial instruments; and the purchase and sale of financial and other futures
contracts and
options on futures
contracts.
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option buyer if there's not enough
equity in it.
Flat - rate
equity trades are $.005 per share ($ 1 minimum),
options trades start at $.70 per
contract, and mutual funds are $ 14.95 per trade.
Purchase or sell commodities, commodity
contracts or real estate, including interests in real estate limited partnerships, provided that the fund may (1) purchase securities of companies that deal in real estate or interests therein (including REITs); (2) purchase or sell futures
contracts,
options contracts,
equity index participations and index participation
contracts; and (3) purchase securities of companies that deal in precious metals or interests therein.
Watch lists can include anything from
equities to individual
options contracts, futures, forex, warrants, you name it.
Rather than purchasing
equities outright, the insurance company typically enters into
options contracts using some portion of the policy premium, which enables them to pass on the upside gains without the downside losses — but at the cost of an additional counterparty risk.
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contracts were a great
option for sellers who didn't need all their
equity at once, and they helped us make sales at a time when many companies couldn't.
Seller financing may also take the form of a Land
Contract (lease - to - purchase), lease -
option, or
equity sharing.