is there a better premium in put or call options?
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If your risk is higher, your premium will be higher as well. It's like sports betting. If something has a poor chance of winning, then the odds improve. It's all in the math.
222997
If I were an excellent options trader why would I place trades for you?  A lot of options are thinly traded and big orders will push the price around.  Same story with penny stocks.  If you want a broker to execute your own trades then optionsexpress.com and interactivebrokers.com are cheap.\n\nYou can read free advice on the Web 24/7 if you go looking for it.
1105837
A stock broker can give you a definite answer.  You might try Charles Schwab, Scottrade, or Fidelity.
421970
buying a put is fine however if stock stays flat, put will lose what is known as time value.  Put expires, which isn't to your advantage when you are thinking stock is going down.  You can hold short for a while, especially if it is not moving :).\nHowever if stock is moving up, you are protected :).  \nWhat you can do is buy call, buy put..that's known as a stradle.  So you can benefit from upside or downside movement.  The key is to find a stock that likes to move a lot (GOOG =D )\n\nAleks
2803
Closest to expiration and market price will have the most volatility.  They are coming out with options that expire every week.  If your stock has one of those options contracts, that is your best bet.
216729
Could you give details on what kind of option you are talking about ?
40341
I use Ameritrade and its pretty good. Check it out.
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If interest rates are expected to go up, bonds will go down, so no bonds would be better than either short or long bonds. \n\nHaving said that, if you must establish a position, short-term bonds would be a better investment because they will mature sooner, at which time they will be redeemed for their face value. \n\nLong-term bonds, on the other hand, will fall in price and remain there until either rates decline once again or the bonds mature.
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You are correct.  If the price of the stock rises, the price of the call option will rise.  You can sell your call option and profit without having to exercise it.  The profit will usually be the same wether you sell the option or exercise and buy the stock and resell it.\n\nhth
677149
You are talking like this is a crap shoot or a blind roll of the dice.  What makes you think Yahoo will go up in 4 yo 6 months?  You have to have a verifiable opinion in order to be an investor.  Why buy an immediate put when the market is already down and you will pay dearly for a put on a volatile stock?  The price of an option is comprised of intrinsic value and time value.  Time value will always be the killer.  Best advice:  Buy a quality stock in a down market and wait for the market to turn upwards again, then SELL call options on your stock.  You will win more times than not because you are not a financial risk taker then.  You can only have an opportunity loss if the stock continues to go up after your stock got called away.  Sell short term options only because "time value is always the killer" for an option buyer.
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Pardon, the system seems to have produced a glitch in your text, such that your full question is not visible.\n\nIt seems, however, that you are looking to learn more about investing.\n\nIf you will look up each of your terms in question at this site:\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/premium.asp\n\nI believe you will be able to obtain the information you need.\n\nBest wishes.
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$1013.85.  Just currious, where are you getting that rate? I hope you are not getting sucked into an option arm with negative amortization.
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Where ever you signed up for your real time quotes should offer a link, if not simply goto www.briefing.com and select your option from Gold, Silver or Platinum. PS. be sure that the service you signed up for actually offers "Real Time qoutes" if you plan to base your investments on any information that the service offers. Sometime they say real time when in fact there are more often then not, delays as long as 15 minutes, which could kill an unaware invester. Good Luck investing
768997
Avg Put/Call ratio (30 days) 0.5x means that there were twice as many calls traded as there were puts, on average over the last 30 days.\n\nPut/Call ratio (1 day) 2.8x means that in the previous session there were 2.8x more puts traded than calls.\n\nAvg Option Volume is just that average number of contracts traded per day.\n\nHistorical volatility (30 day) - volatility is measured by standard deviation, which is a measure of dispersion of daily returns over a given period, in this case 30 days, annualized. So 19.94 means 19.94% on an annual basis. So, in theory, you would expect the stock to be between +19.94% and -19.94% in a year's time 68% of the time.\n\nOpen Interest P&C (1 day) 9,170 means that there were 9,170 oustanding (i.e. open) contracts.
729172
There might be a small fee...ScotTrade (http://www.scottrade.com ) has lower commissions than others like Schwab.
231973
Yes. Using a Monte-Carlo simulation and run it at least a hundred times is very useful when it comes to pricing exotics of any kind. Pricing derivatives where there is a possibility to exercise at any time before expiration needs approximation and repeated occurences to reach accuracy of pricing. This is why pricing american options versus European options needs a Monte-Carlo -like method. You can use Cox-Ross-Rubinstein or the Quadratic method (by Robert Whaley) to price american options. Good luck
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Scottrade.com $7 per trade dude..   Optionsexpress is good as well when you get a set of balls... ... You do know it is highly likely u will lose money right...  Some of us do this for a living and still get smoked - so dont give up right away .