We recommend reading this chapter on Varsity to learn more and understand the concepts in-depth.
Key takeaways from this chapter
- It makes sense to buy a call option only when one anticipates an increase in the price of an asset
- The strike price is the anchor price at which both the option buyer and option writer enter into an agreement
- The underlying price is simply the spot price of the asset
- Exercising an option contract is the act of claiming your right to buy the options contract at the end of the expiry
- Similar to futures contracts, options contracts also have an expiry. Options contracts expire on the last Thursday of every month
- Options contracts have different expiries – the current month, mid-month, and far month contracts
- Premiums are not fixed, in fact, they vary based on several factors that act upon it
- Options are cash-settled in India.
Amazing explanation ! The language is so simple, anyone can learn options trading. Thanks for enhancing learners confidence.
Glad you liked it, Pankaj. Happy learning 🙂
easy to understand…..
Video is very good but the music is distracting from the content.
Noted, will pass that as a feedback to editing team.
How to trading data live zerodha?
Every data point on Kite is live, Sanju.
hey karthik why there are different options with different strike price when there is only one spot/underlying asset price
eg; infosys has infy dec 1020 CE,infy dec 1060 CE etcc? why is that
The underlying is just one, but these are all bets that the underlying will or will not cross a price point. Hence different strikes.