Berkshire sold options contracts based on the value of four equity market indexes over the next decade.
Bob had read an article that explained that about 75% of all options contracts expire without being exercised.
Liffe, a group responsible for a combined volume of 2.8 billion futures and futures options contracts last year.
The exchanges plan to develop a single set of futures and options contracts in preparation for the euro.
More than 35, 424 options contracts have moved on the Macy's name on Friday, with calls outmoving puts by more than 150%.
Rueckert also noted the significant increase in derivative markets, which are options contracts on equities, and those are amplifying the market's volatility.
Some strategists hungry for an end-of-week rally in CMG looked to the weekly options contracts that are now in their final day of trading.
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"I made markets in dozens of Wells Fargo options contracts, but the costs and the risks I faced began to outweigh the rewards, " says Friedfertig.
The data reflects positioning as of April 16 for futures and options contracts traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and on the Nymex.
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But she said considering that December futures contracts will begin to roll to deferred months in the next few weeks and the expiration of December options contracts, these two considerations could ultimately push prices higher.
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Instead, director James Allen Smith spent a year and a half filming Chicago's colorful floor traders as they swapped futures and options contracts and struggled to adapt to the new era of electronic and high-frequency trading.
After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts ( Click here or definitions).
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts (for definitions, see box, p. 68).
They have been willing to pay a higher price (as measured by implied volatility) for extreme out-of-the-money options than for contracts that insure against smaller market declines.
Their unconventional nature makes it hard to compare binary options with regular commodity contracts.
Oil trading consultant Lipow suspects that to lose so much money Semgroup must have ventured beyond mere futures contracts into options.
The life insurance company utilizes all different methods of providing for the guarantees, such as portfolio insurance, derivatives, futures contracts, options, etc.
Last week, UK Finance Minister George Osborne said he opposed a Tobin-style tax on derivatives such as forex contracts, options and futures, unless they were applied globally.
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Mr. Jackson's bet: that, because the strike price entitled an investor to own Kimberly-Clark shares at a price lower than the stock's current market price, the investor who bought the call options would exercise the contracts before the ex-dividend date to capture the company's 60 cent-a-share payout (recently increased to 66 cents).
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Currently, there are 19, 120 put contracts open in the November series of options, compared to 17, 488 call contracts open.
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Options volume was brisk on Thursday, with more than 4 million contracts trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
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Specifically, there are 16, 556 call contracts open in the February series of options, versus put open interest of only 8, 955 contracts.
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Managed-money accounts trimmed their net-long position in gold futures and options to 82, 056 contracts.
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That's a day that occurs four times a year when contracts for stock options and other exotic securities all expire at once.
Options, futures and forward contracts could be alternatives for the individual investor to invest directly, but you may consider consulting your investment adviser about purchasing such complex products.
Retail options trading accounts for some 40% of the total 675 million contracts traded a year on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Options traders are also quite bullish when it comes to BIDU. Currently, call open interest totals a hefty 147, 229 contracts in the March and weekly February series of options, compared to put open interest of 110, 125 contracts for the same series.
The front month options are the most actively traded contracts on Urban at present.
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