How to calculate options trading profit and loss?
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(10-8) * 20 = 40. The other data is just for figuring out how much the options worth.
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It really depends on the length of your trade.\n\nSome trades run through the day - then the trade could be fully technical or fully based on news.\n\nOther trades can run through months - just letting the trade run with the profits. With that you would be using both technical as well as fundamental to plot out an exit plan as the stock moves to become even more profitable.\n\nIn my opinion, behavioural aspects of the markets are all represented in the charts.
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Look it up at barchart.com. They give percentage buy, hold and sell opinions on about a dozen different technical formulas.  They list it as a buy.\nhttp://quote.barchart.com/texpert.asp?sym=LQMT
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First, you need to figure out what the value of the stock was, and then subtract off the tax to figure out the profit.  In a sense, what you're doing mathematically is saying "14,800 is 28% of what number?"  To get this, divide 14,800 by 0.28 and you get 52,857.14.  Subtract off the 14,800 and you get the 38,057.10 (or close to it, with rounding).
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Derivatives are contracts to sell or buy (or trade) some underlying asset, at some future point in time.\n\nFor example, let’s say Microsoft stock is selling on the market today at a price of $100 per share.  You and I enter into a contract in which I agree to buy 10 shares of Microsoft from you in two weeks.  We further agree that the price of that sale will be $100, no matter what the market price happens to be on that day.  Two weeks go by, and on the appointed day I transfer $1,000 dollars to you, in fulfillment of the contract, and you transfer 10 shares of Microsoft to me.\n\nIf the market price on that day is still $100 per share, then neither of us has profited or lost from the transaction.  But if the price has risen, say to $105 per share, I have come out ahead, because I have purchased shares worth $1,050 for a price of only $1,000.  I can turn around and immediately sell my shares on the market, thereby making a profit of $50 from our contract.  You, on the other hand, have suffered a $50 loss by selling your shares for $1,000 when they are really worth $1,050.\n\nHowever, if the price had dropped, say to $95 per share, I would still obligated to pay $1,000 for 10 shares.  Under this scenario, I would be buying shares that are only worth $950; therefore, I would take a $50 loss, and you would come out $50 ahead.\n\nAs you can see, derivatives contracts are essentially a form of gambling.  In the above example, I am betting that the price of Microsoft will rise over the intervening two weeks, and you are betting that it will fall.\n\nDerivatives are useful, primarily in hedging risk.  For example, say I am a farmer of green beans, and historically, green beans sell for about $10 a bushel, but this price varies widely depending on growing conditions in any particular year.  I might enter into a contract with a speculator to sell all my crop at a price of $9 per bushel.  In doing so, I guard against the possibility of a steep drop in the price that would wipe me out.  On the other side, the buyer accepts the risk of a drop below $9 per bushel, but will come out ahead if the price is greater than that, because he will turn around and sell my green beans at that greater price.
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Most people lose money trading options.  See this link.
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Price + tax = Selling Price\n\nP + r% of P = SP\nP(1 + r/100) = SP\nP = SP/(1 + r/100)
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Set it up like this:\n\nG = amount gained\nL = amount lost (which we will soon replace with 2G)\n\n\n10000 + G - L = 8000... his starting amount plus gains and losses is 8000, right?\n\n10000 + G - 2G = 8000 ... we replaced L with 2G, now it's simple algebra.\n1G - 2G = 8000 - 10000 ... isolate the variables\n-G = -2000 ... now just multiply by -1\n\nG = Gain = 2000\n\nLoss is 2G, so loss is 4000.\n\nReality check: if he had 10000 and then gained 2000 then lost 4000 it makes sense that he'd have 8000 left.  Always do a quick reality check after a story problem to make sure the answer makes sense.
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the article is sold at a loss so the cp(cost price) is more than sp(selling price). or\nloss = cp-sp\n=> cp = loss +sp.....1)\nsp =138 Rs\nloss = 8% of cp = cp*8/100\nfrom1)\n=> cp = [cp8/100] + 138\ncp[1 - [8/100]] = 138\ncp[92/100]=138\n=> cp = 138*100/92\ncp =13800/92\nsolve it further to get result
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Before you trade stock options you need to be a proven money maker in the stock market. Unless you can anticipate stock movements, you have no chance trading stock options.\n\nThe way I trade stocks, I cut my losses short at about 7% Several years ago I decided to take that 7% and put it in call options 3 to 6 months out instead of 100% in shares. \n\nYour risk is clearly defined, and you are offered some protection from events such as market closures or gap downs.\n\nI would never risk more than 1% of my entire portfolio on an option position.\n\nSpreads, straddles, and the ability to hedge are other benefits of options. Only trade stock options if you are an accomplished stock trader. You could lose alot of money.\n\nWriting options is statistically a losing proposition in the long run. The risk / reward is clearly unfavorable.
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I think you are refering to option pricing models.\nYou want to search online for real option theory that lets you build models for build-vs-buy decisions. I have attached a link for starters, you can also look in Wikipedia for Black-Scholes option pricing model to get an introduction to it.
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The equation is cost/(1-x), where x is the percentage profit you want to make.\n\nSo, if you want to make 40% profit on an item that costs $1, then the equation is 1/(1-.4)= $1.67.\n\n$0.67 profit on $1.67 selling price = 40% GP
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If you pd for the stock and it was sold at a profit you pay capital gains if you pd for the stock and it had no value when you sold it you would have a loss. If you pd nothing and they were worth nothing. Then you have to do nothing. If I knew more I could better answer this. Hope this helps some
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Go to Yahoo finance.\nType in the ticker of the stock you want\ngo to "historical prices" it is the fourth choic down on the left side. then simply go to the date you want. it gives you the trading range for the day and the closing price
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How much more are you selling the item for than what you paid for it?\n\nSay you obtained a widget for $100.  If you sold it for $150, then the [simple] profit is 50%, since 50/100 = .5 = 50%.\n\nIn reality you would have to take into account things like opportunity costs, wages, store costs (if a store is involved), licensing, taxes, etc.  But above is how you get a simple profit rate or percentage.
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Mutiply $28 by 0.30, then subrtact 28 again, and that should tell you how much it is. ($19.60. It will come up as -19.60 though, just ignore the negative)