In other words, it would appear that options traders are hedging long call positions on stocks by purchasing puts on indexes.
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Shareholders own shares outright, whereas corporate executives are long call options.
"It seems the regulator has taken action in the cases where it is easiest to prove suspicious trading, specifically with single leg long call buying" said Gareth Ryan, a managing director at IUR Capital, one of the options firms assisting regulators in the Heinz case.
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Duke is keeping the undeveloped sites--long-call options, as it were--on the possibility that electricity will again become profitable in Texas.
Duke is keeping the undeveloped sites--long-call options, as it were--on the possibility that electricity will become profitable again in Texas.
Calls to 101 cost 15p from both mobile phones and landlines, regardless of how long the call is or when it is made.
But in heavier use, including lots of email usage and Web browsing, streaming a one-hour TV show via Netflix, and conducting an hour-long phone call, the battery drained more quickly and was almost gone by late in the afternoon.
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He notes that this is a long-term call, and that the stock could be volatile near-term.
Everything started up and ran perfectly, though once I made my first long-distance call, I found the voice quality lacking.
The value of a share in Viacom or Seagram is in part determined by the value of that particular long-shot call option.
Using gold mines as an example, he said when you buy shares in the company, you also receive a free, long-term call option on gold.
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MCI's long-distance call revenues could turn into an outright decline.
The Compass EMP Fund has three mutual funds, but talking about the Alternative Strategies Fund in particular, there are no traditional-what we call long-only-stock or bonds in the portfolio.
You get the long distance phone call.
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Genetically driven to grow and defined by an ethos insiders call "long-term greedy, " this firm wants more.
On a nymph rig, I dredge up my biggest fish of the trip, a pretty two-foot-long cutbow, and call it a day.
Instead of tracking the cost of a long-distance phone call, for example, the new classification simply tracks the cost of telephone services.
He wondered if the call was long-distance, if he should yell out to stop reading Scripture into the phone at twelve cents a minute.
It is what I call The Long Nose of Innovation.
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The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.
Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.
Some crew members were horrified that he had taken so long to issue a distress call.
It's been a long wait by what we call the Soccer Tragics - of which I'm one.
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Sometimes it's a phone call from a long absent friend, checking on you.
With six-year terms, senators have long histories of roll-call votes.
Then, with the transports at an all time high in early July, I again reiterated my call to book long-term profits and to raise cash to at least 50%.
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