That is why successful investing and trading is about losing less money or what we call Risk Management.
One is from our secretary of corrections, Roger Werholtz, who has developed a philosophy and concept that we call risk reduction.
Depending on the strategy, calls can be used to reduce risk (covered call-writing) or to add staggering amounts of risk ("naked" call-writing), so brokers issue options-trading permission only selectively.
The enhanced due diligence requirements for financial intermediaries call for a risk-based assessment designed to prevent the acceptance of untaxed assets.
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The banks are suddenly aware of what economists call "counterparty risk, " the risk that the banks to which they might lend money might turn out to be in bad shape and unable to repay.
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On the other hand, should Apple signal a cash or product strategy, project a vision or improve communications on its call, then less risk-tolerant investors would want to look at buying Apple after the earnings call to participate in upside for the second half of 2013.
To put it another way, what bankers call "the execution risk" in the deal looks less in a Co-op takeover than for an NBNK takeover.
While the only risk associated with a bull call spread is the net debt incurred by entering the position, there is a considerably higher risk assumed by selling the September 3.50 puts.
While the only risk associated with a bull call spread is the net debt incurred by entering the position, there is a considerably higher risk assumed by selling the January 2012 12.50 puts.
When you write a covered call, you always run the risk of losing your shares.
More than 100 jobs are at risk at an Ikea call centre in South Yorkshire.
Foreign banks have a far wider spread of risk, and can call on head office to help if need be.
Our knowledge economy is producing alarmism on an industrial scale and the siren call to avoid this or that risk is ceaseless.
When that bell rings, it takes a special kind of courage to answer the call and rush, at great risk to yourself, to help your fellow citizens.
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If anything, Antifragile is a celebration of risk and randomness and a call to arms to recognize and embrace antifragility.
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If they call for a withdrawal timetable, they risk looking weak on defence, where Republicans have been perceived as stronger for decades.
As most options traders know, the only risk associated with a bull call spread is the net debt incurred by entering the position.
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Why did President Clinton call today's hasty high-risk Camp David summit?
The Wason test suggests that analysing social contracts and analysing risk are what evolutionary psychologists call cognitive modules bundles of mental adaptations that act like bodily organs in that they are specialised to a particular job.
It said it was receiving a high number of flood-related calls and, with more rain forecast, urged the public to call 999 only if there was a risk to life or risk of serious property or environmental damage.
To that end, the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society hosted a call for essays, " Systemic Risk, Financial Reform, and Moving Forward from the Financial Crisis, " seeking to find solutions that would prevent a future systemic meltdown.
Analysts questioned the firm's risk management during the Wednesday conference call, especially regarding the incident on the credit desk in London.
By this March, however, the Carlyle, Blackstone and other equity partnerships started marking down their holdings, and Reijtenbagh's portfolio plummeted, essentially putting Reijtenbagh at risk of a Credit Suisse margin call.
An investor in such a bond may wish to know what yield will be realized if the bond is called at a particular call date, to determine whether the prepayment risk is worthwhile.
Therefore, I would think about spreading the risk that is, selling a call likely to be out of the money against this as to offset my total cost and allow me to have some upside if the stock moves up in the meantime.
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Miller, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.
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