SMG FE 449- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)

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A financial option contract gives its owner the right (but not obligation) to purchase or sell an asset at a fixed price at some future date. A call option gives the owner the right to buy the asset; a put option gives the owner the right to sell the option. For every owner of a financial option, there is an option writer, the seller of an option contract, who is the person who takes the other side of the contract. Options are a part of a broader class of securities called derivatives because they derive their value solely from the price of another asset. When a holder of an option enforces the agreement and buys or sells a share of stock at the agree-upon price, he is exercising the option. The price at which the option holder buys or sells the share of stock when the option is exercised is called the strike price or exercise price.

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