Sentences with phrase «option expiration date»

However, you can find various option expiration dates if necessary.

Ricky The Risky does not own any stock but he doesn't think ABC will go over $ 25 by the next option expiration date, so he sells a naked call option with a strike of $ 25 for $ 100.

The software will find all stocks that have an ex-dividend date before your chosen option expiration date, and then show you matching covered calls.

All you need is a list of stocks that have ex-dividend dates prior to whichever option expiration date you're interested in.

If you own one IBM January 145 Put, you have the right to sell 100 shares of IBM stock for the price of 145 between now and the January options expiration date (all options expire on the third Friday of the expiration month).

Let's consider the possible scenarios a month from now, in the final minutes of trading on the option expiration date:

The best ones are those where you get paid a good premium AND you don't mind owning them beyond the option expiration date if it turns out that way.

Sometimes covered call writers will be subject to early exercise (meaning, the buyer of the option will exercise his right to purchase your stock before the option expiration date) just so they can capture the dividend.

Just use the Search Dividends feature and set the Expiration Date slider to the option expiration date you are most interested in.

If there is an earnings release date before the option expiration date then the options will be more expensive due to the uncertainty of how the stock will behave once earnings are released.

But there's a potential problem — to reduce risk you probably want to eliminate covered calls where there is an earnings release date prior to the option expiration date.

The only time that time premium might be zero is if the ex-div date is very near the option expiration date.

To remove everything that has an earnings release before the option expiration date, we go into the Advanced Filters:

All of these covered call results have an ex-div date prior to the May 18 option expiration date.

As long as the ex-dividend date is between your purchase date and the option expiration date then you will receive the dividend (except in cases of early exercise).

Aside from the strike price, the option expiration date is the next most important factor in options trading.

Traders often wait until the option expiration date to decide whether to exercise an option.

Since the stock was trading under $ 48 on January 17, the options expiration date, I was assigned the 200 shares and I've been holding them ever since.

A bond option is the right, but not obligation, to buy (via a call) or sell (via a put) a specified face value of bonds at an agreed price (the strike price) on or before the option expiration date (in the case of American - style options) or only on the expiration date (for European - style options).

Typically, the loss of time value accelerates as we approach the options expiration date.