Stock Options and Futures

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d1 is ln(SpotPrice/StrikePrice)+((RiskFreeRate + (0.5*(sigma^2)))*TimeToMaturity)

d2 is SpotPrice-sigma*TimeToMaturity^0.5

These equations are taken from the spreadsheet found in the related link

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No. CME Group has introduced "broiler chicken" futures in the past and has always failed, because the chicken industry is extremely integrated--farmers grow under contract to processors.

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For listed options there is a quote with an ask price and you can buy the option for that price. If the question is how is that price determined that is much more complicated. Professional options traders use a mathematical formula, usually the Black-Scholes formula, to determine the value of an option. There are several inputs to the Black-Scholes which are days to expiration, strike price, volatility, and risk free interest rate. These professionals offer you the option at a certain ask price or will buy the option at a certain bid price. They make a living from the difference between the bid and the ask price and by using certain hedging techniques. So let's say you wanted to buy an option to buy 100 shares of xyz company for the next 6 months at a price of $100 and xyz is currently selling for $97. We know how many days to expiration, about 182, we know the strike price, $100, and we know the risk free interest rate, about 4%. What we don't know is the volatility. The historical volatility can be calculated and used to calculate the options value. However, for various reasons the option pros may feel the volatility the next 6 months will be different than the historical volatility and set the option price accordingly. This is called the implied volatility. Suppose the option price is $5 bid and $5.40 ask. You could bid $5.20 and maybe someone would sell you that option for $5.20. Remember options represent the right to buy 100 shares so you would pay $5.20 X 100 = $520 plus commissions of about $15 for a total of $535 for 1 option and the stock would have to be $105.35 or more in 6 months for this to successful. Dividends during the period also affect option prices but for simplicity I have assumed there are no dividends.

It means when your playing a game and at the menu screen you see OPTIONS. You select it and just keep it there forever. It's open to everyone.

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Primary stakeholders are the people who take part in economic transactions with the business. More often than not, they are internal stakeholders. Some examples are suppliers, stockholders, customers, creditors, and employees.

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The contract is made whole so that you are neither negitively or positively affected. You can figure out the new strike price by multiplying the stated value by the split ratio:

100 shares becomes

$70 at 2 for 1 = 200 shares at $35 each

$150 at 3 for 2 = 150 shares at $50 each

The OCC can will calculate it for you when you decide to take the option.

A call option gives the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy a certain amount of stock on or before a certain date for a certain price. A put option gives its buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell stock on or before a certain date for a certain price. How the options are exercised is another difference. If you bought a put, you're hoping the stock price falls below the strike price--the certain price in the contract. It would make no sense to sell stock for $10 a share if it's $15 now, right? Calls exercise when their stock price goes above the strike price.

The ticker symbol for CB Richard Ellis Group is CBG and it is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Stock options give employees the option to buy stock at a predetermined price. Usually, when a company grants stock options, the predetermined price refers to a future price, and the future price is usually higher than the current price. For example, if your stock is trading at around $20/share, you might get 1000 options with a strike price of $22/share. No one would exercise their options (or buy this stock) right away, because why would you want to pay $22 for the stock when you can get it for $20? But, if the stock goes up to $30, then you get a good deal when you exercise your options: you get to buy those same shares at a discount, for $22/share. In the stock options backdating scandal, companies looked at their stocks' historical prices, found the low point, and granted options based on that date. Since the stock had gone up since then (i.e., the stock is no longer at the low point), this backdating automatically guaranteed these employees made money. In other words, say that the company stock is trading around $20 today and has been at that level for a while, but a year ago it dropped--just for a day--to $15 before rising back to $20 the next day. If your company illegally backdated stock options, it would grant options today for $15, but backdate them to make it look like the options were granted before the temporary drop. That way, employees could take advantage of the stocks' gain from $15 to $20. This backdating, while profitable, is illegal because options aren't meant to be a guarantee of profits but an incentive to work hard to improve the company and, hence, its stock price. Backdating is cheating, making it look like stock options were granted in the past by changing the date.

Futures trading is the buying and selling of contracts which require you to buy or sell an item on a certain date for a certain price. Most (very close to all) futures contracts are written against commodities rather than stock.

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- - - Long Story: I can't give you an answer as to which banks provide the Medallion SigGuarantee, but I can tell you my experience here in MADRID, SPAIN. My local bank (Bankia/Caja Madrid) wouldn't sign it even though they have my signature on record and investment through them, because they wouldn't sign an English-language document that they didn't understand - which is fair and understandable. The Madrid, Spain branch office of Wells Fargo (USA) wouldn't sign it because it deals only with commercial clients - I'm an individual - and I wrote to Wells Fargo customer service, again USA, and they said they would only provide the Medallion within the USA. Wells Fargo has my signature on file, but that didn't seem to matter to them, here. The embassy doesn't provide Medallion service. I didn't even want to futz with CITIBank which is of course a SEC-registered institution. So, I called my financial institution, explained my situation and they responded, after checking with the higher-ups tha an Embassy Seal would be okay... An email said that local laws apply to Americans living abroad and to follow their laws... Well, that gets into the language problem, again. So, going back through the "Embassy route", I called up the notary there (she had already seen me once before when she said NO, and explained that the financial institution would accept the stamp. She said okay, but I would have to provide a document. So... I wrote up a formal, legalese-type document with the purpose of it being "in lieu of" the Medallion sig.guarantee (on page 5) and I also included the general nature of the entire document (inheritance) so as to specifically link my written document with the form from my financial institution...and of course, I gave my full name, SSN, address, and Passport Number. I did NOT say or imply that the Embassy GUARANTEES that my signature is mine, however, only that effectively that they have witnessed me sign a document whose signature is similar to the one in my passport (I forget the wording, but I can tell you if you contact me. That should work, and as the Embassy lady there said, "Now it's up to them to accept it, or reject it", which is true... I'll come back and let the readers of this history know how it all turns out. Should take about two months, about early June2013. (Pardon the length and cohesiveness of this story, please...) FET:4/4/13

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Update: August, 2013 - - Yes! It worked. Wells Fargo accepted the Embassy Seal (which cost around 50 Euros) and thus I avoided having to get the Medallion Signature Guarantee. I recommend to others in Madrid to do the same thing, although I can't answer whether this will solve YOUR particular situation. I can get the exact wording of the document they (both the Embassy and Wells Fargo) did accept. Contact me if you need to through this forum, or write to me at " plenum222@yahoo.com ". Bye!! FET:28/8/13

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Let us say you are the managing director of ABC Bank Ltd which is a stock market listed company. After weeks of negotiation you know that ICICI bank the country's leading bank has accepted to buy your company and issues shares of its own company to investors who hold shares of your company. As any intelligent investor would know, shares of an ICICI Bank are much more valuable than shares of an ABC Bank. Once this news of ICICI acquiring ABC Bank goes public people will start accumulating shares of ABC Bank so that they can benefit out of the acquisition. This will send the price of ABC Bank skyrocketing. So, knowing this information, if you buy shares of ABC Bank for your personal share trading account before this news goes public, you can sell them off once the acquisition is complete and the share price has exploded. This way you gain an undue advantage and make a profit at the expense of the company.

This is insider trading.

All stock options are bought at the ask price. There is no such thing as buying at bid price unless you are a market maker bidding for options in the open market.

No, and you shouldn't.

If the strike price of your option is $10 per share, and the stock is currently trading at $9, exercising it would get you nine-dollar stock for $10 per share. This is what we options fans call a very bad thing.

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