Stock Options and Futures

You can find free futures charts on a great many websites. These include Free Futures Rapid Finder, Premium Data, GFT UK, Live Charts, Commodity Charts and Investing.

There is a website called Gofutures, and they have information on futures options. The site has demos, charts, and graphs to show all the information.

Futures trading is all about understanding possible financial risks. To learn to trade futures, one must learn the aesthetics of leverage and initial margin.

A futures contract works between two businesses. It allows for two businesses to come to an agreement on a given product's price despite the product's price volatility. This process allows the two businesses to transfer their risk and reward to a third party investor.

If you want to find out more information about commodity futures options then you can go to the website Commodity World which is a free site where you can do research.

Unless oil become extinct, oil trading will likely continue indefinitely. An oil future is a type of investment in which someone speculates whether the price of oil will rise or fall. It is a type of future contract in which both the buyer and seller agrees in advance on the price the buyer will pay for the future oil.

Managed futures accounts are a type of mutual fund investment. Some top managed futures accounts include Altagris, ACR, Credit Suisse, Equinox, and Goldman Sachs.

Stock futures are contract agreements to purchase a specified amount of stock at a certain price at a set date in the future. Stock futures are used as a way to protect, or hedge, an investment.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission was established to regulate the trading industry. This was done to protect the public and market users from fraudulent activities and manipulation by traders.

One has to first be very well versed in a lot of technical information related to the stock trade. The first step for any aspiring stock trader would be to educate himself on how it all works. Once he understands some basics, then he can look at various metrics such as open interest, call or put options, average daily trading volume of a particular stock over time to make predictions about how it will perform in the future.

To become a future broker one needs to pass the three series examination. The first part exists of questions that have to do with basic knowledge and the second part will cover rules and regulations. Next you need to fill out the 8-R form with the NFA.

The commission rate for a futures brokers vary according to how much work is in it for them. You can find discount brokers for as little as 59 cents per trade.

You do it twice.

The first is when you exercise the option. An ISO has a "strike price" - the price you get to buy the stock at. Stock has a fair market price, which is what everyone else has to pay for it. The spread between the two is used to calculate your Alternative Minimum Tax in the year you exercise the ISO, if you hold the stock at the end of the year.

Yes, of course there is an example. You work for Acme, and they gave you an ISO to buy 100,000 shares of stock at $10 per share. On the date you exercised this option, the stock was trading at $11. Subtract $10 from $11, multiply by the 100,000 shares, and you have to tell the IRS about $100,000 in spread.

If you hold the stock for at least one year after exercising the stock AND two years after receiving the ISO (which might actually mean you held the stock for two years, if you exercised the ISO right away), the tax you will pay is long-term capital gains tax on the difference between the strike price of the ISO and the price you sold at.

Bloomberg is an A-listed site for financial and business news all over the globe. Being a premier in this industry, Bloomberg gives me a good impression on their take on how things like these are done everyday.

There is a specific kind of option that can be rolled over.

It's called a LEAP option; LEAP means "long-term equity anticipation." (No, I don't know where the P comes from.) These are options with very long expiration dates...years even. And there are both Call LEAP and Put LEAP options. To rollover a LEAP option, you buy a new one, hold it for half its lifespan, then sell it and buy another one. The official name of this practice is Option Roll Forward.

The Bloomberg futures change constantly. As of right now, the futures are mostly increasing. There are several that are decreasing like S&P/TSX 60 IX, BOVESPA INDEX, FTSE/MIB IDX, and SWISS MKT IX. BOVESPA INDEX is down the most as of right now by 930.

You need a stockbroker to be active in the share market because all stock trades have to be made through one. Not all brokers are the same: some of them do analysis and make recommendations, others just sell you whatever you tell them you want.

A call option is the right to buy a specific stock at a set price (known as the strike price). for this "Right" to lock in a price, the option buyer pays the seller (also known as the grantor) money which is known as the Option Premium.

Now here's where most folks get tripped up . . .

You can enter the market by Buying the call (go long) or selling the call (grant, go short, or sell).

If you buy the call, your risk is limited to the money that you paid the seller, i.e. the Option Premium. Your potential profit is unlimited, in the sense that if you hold the right to buy Apple at $500, you would continue to make money provided Apple continues to rise.

However, if you are the seller or grantor - you sell a call - your profit is now limited to the Option Premium that you received, and your risk is unlimited. By selling the option you have essentially made a price guarantee on a stock in exchange for a lump sum payment - the option premium.

So some investors utilize what is called "Covered Calls." They buy the underlying stock, say 1000 shares of apple. They are now "long" apple.

Next they "Grant" (sell) call options against their long apple position. They receive the "option Premium" on the calls from the buyer, which is credited in their account.

They are now long the stock, and short the call options.

If apple stays the same or goes down, they owe the option purchaser nothing, and get to keep his money (option premium) once the options expire.

If the price rises, the grantor is a loser on the option, but is covered by his long apple stock position, example - if he bought Apple at 400 and then granted Call options against it at a strike price of 400, if apple goes to 500 he essentially takes his winnings on his Apple Stock, and passes them (covers) his call option losses.

So to clarify, your answer by selling calls against a long stock position, you lock in the option premium, which could essentially act as a limited cushion in the amount of that premium, should the stock price remain unchanged or fall in an amount of less than the option premium received.

The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. is the third Friday of the expiration month. Note: If options expiration occurs on a holiday in which the markets are closed expiration is moved up to Thursday. A good example of this is Good Friday prior to Easter.

No, you cannot.

CRA interprets short selling as a speculative strategy, and therefore theoretically against the 'principals and intent' of a registered account which is to build funds for retirement.

Along these lines, for options in RSPs, covered calls (holding the underlying stock and selling a call against it) are permitted since they are not considered 'speculative' strategies but naked calls and naked puts are prohibited.

Free - from selection:. In case of free from selection we can select the part of picture in any form.

Crop option:. But in crop option a picture can be selected either in square form or rectangular form.

McDonald's is a very established company with thousands of branches throughout the world. The fact that it is a successful company doesn't necessarily mean that it is also a good investment. When looking into an investment opportunity, one should ask himself what is the purpose of the investment. Is it a Long / Short term investment? Is the person interested in High / Low risk? And more. Purchasing stocks could be very risky even when the company is great. The market could fall due to external factors, or the company can suffer from cyclical influences that could harm the stock performance for example. For example, McDonald's just reported that their sales declined for the first time in nine years.

The value of stock is usually quoted by it's monetary value at any given time. The price is usually quoted without decimal points. For example a share that is worth £2.97 is usually written as 297.

in eighths of a dollar (a+)

A forward contract is a private and customizable contract that needs to be settled at the end of the agreement and is traded over the counter.

A futures contract has standardized terms and is traded on an stock or commodity exchange, where prices are settled on a daily basis until the end of the contract.

Technically, you need however much an ounce of silver costs when you go in to buy it. Coin dealers sell a "bullion coin" called the Silver Eagle that contains one ounce of sterling silver; you can buy one and say you have invested in silver.

One ounce ain't gonna get you far, folks.

In reality, serious investing in silver starts with 100 troy ounces of metal. And you're better off if you've got at least 1000 ounces of it.