Hello, how can i figure out the price of a stock option?
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I don't trade stock options, nor do I have any expertise on the subject, but I enjoy trading prediction options on Cenimar.com. It gives you a little bit of a feel for how an options market works.
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yahoo might have a database going that far back,  http://finance.yahoo.com/\n\nit depends on what stock you want to look up though.
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Stock option grants and stock grants are two forms of compensation often offered as incentives in addition to base salary offered to a newly hired employee. This practice is especially common in the high tech industry. \n\nStock options are contracts that allow you to buy or sell specific amount of a particular stock at a certain price within a set period of time. The set price is called the strike price. When you (the stock option holder) make use of your right to buy/sell stock according to the terms of the option, you are exercising the option. Call options are options giving you the right to buy stock. Put options are options giving you the right to sell stock. Employers grant call options to employees. Let's take an example: Let's say you are hired by Google and they offer you options to buy 100 shares of Google stock at $400 within the next 5 years. This stock option gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Google stock at exactly $400 any time within the next 5 years. Let's say it's after four years now. Suppose Google stock is at $300 now, now your options are worthless, because you could buy Google stock in the market for $300, much less than the $400 price offered by your stock option. Now suppose Google stock is at $500 now, then if you exercise your option, you could buy 100 shares at $400. Then you can turn around and sell it on the stock market for the current price of $500, making a $100*100=$10000 profit. So the stock option is basically not worth anything if currently the stock price is lower than your option strike price. But as long as your option has not expired, it's possible that the stock price could go above your strike price and make your stock options worth something.\n\nStock grants are simpler to understand. The employer gives you some shares of stock for free. So let's use the Google example again. Suppose Google hired you and gave you 100 shares in a stock grant. Now you own 100 shares of Google stock. At anytime, you could sell that stock for whatever price it is trading at on the stock market.\n\nStock option and stock grants are usually offered on terms called vesting. That means that you are not given the full amount of options or stock right away, but rather the employer gives it to you over time. A common vesting schedule is vesting over four years, so that you get 1/4 of the stock or options offered after the first, second, third, and fourth year you have been at the company. This is done to give employees an incentive to stay at the company.
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Look up stock symbol  BBBB\nThey have evrything.
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Wow, their are a lot of confused people out there in regards to options.\n\nOptions are not like shares of a stock.  They do not have a fixed number of shares.  They have open interest.  Open interest tells you how many contracts are in existence.   Options are a contract between a buyer and a seller.  When you want to sell or buy an option contract, if someone is willing to take the other side of your trade than an option contract is created.  You can sell a call or buy a call and you can sell a put and buy a put.  Because of this, when you place your trade, you have to specify whether you are opening (creating a new contract) or closing (completing a contract).  \n\nThis is why you have to specify, lets say you are long 10 call contracts on XYZ and you want to sell them.  You would enter that as a sell to close and this would close out those contracts.  If you entered that trade as a sell to open, you would still be long the 10 calls of XYZ, and you would now also be short 10 calls of XYZ.  If you did not own XYZ stock, this new position would be naked calls with unlimited risk.\n\nIf you want more info on options click this link, http://www.cboe.com/LearnCenter/default.aspx\nThe link is to the Chicago Board of Options.  They have awesome materials and support.  I hope that helped.
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Trigger Price is a generic term that applies to trades of all kinds of investments - not only for derivatives.\n\nThere are different types of ways you can trade ( Let's use stock for discussion ).\n\nIf you want to buy shares in a company, you can buy it at the current going rate ...Called Market Order\n\nIf you think the current price is too high and the share price will come down, you can choose that price and place an order called Limit Order.  But the problem with this order is, the price may never come to that Limit Price and your will never be executed.\n\nThe above limit price can also be construed as Trigger Price, as it will trigger buy for your order.\n\nBut, it mostly applies to another type of order called Stop Loss ( Limit ) Order, with a couple of it's own variations.\n\nIf you don't want to sit in front of your computer all day long, watching the ticker for price...what you can do is....place a Stop Market Order or Stop Limit Order, with a Trigger Price.\n\nFor Example...say...the share of your favorite company is currentlyy trading at $100/share.  But your gut says, it went up too much too far...and I am more comfortable buying it at $90/share.  So you place a Limit order to buy 100 shares at $90/share. After work you come home and find that the day low was $90.25 and finally closed at $95 for the day.  Your order never got filled because you wanted to buy ONLY at $90 and you feel like you missed the boat by 25 cents.\n\nStop Market/Limit Order comes to your rescue.\n\nEarly that day, if your gut had said..$90/share is a good price, but I am okay with $92/share too, but definitely NOT $100/share.  So, what you should have done is place a Stop Market/Limit Order with $92 as the trigger price.\n\nNow..if you had placed Stop Market Order for $92...as soon as the price crosses $92/share your order would have been executed. But since it became a MARKET ORDER at the trigger price, you PURCHASE PRICE maybe $92 or $90.25 or even $95.\n\nAll your $92 did was trigger the execution your order, which converts into a Market order at that price.\n\nInstead, you could have placed a Stop Limit Order, for a specific $$$ amount, even after your order is triggered by $92.\n\nFYI...Only market order guarantees execution
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THrough Yahoo Finance you open the page of the particular stock and click the historical prices tab on the left side of the screen. All you need is the date and it will give you the high, low, closing, etc.
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If you know the Symbol for the stock they're in, go to yahoo finance, put the synbol in, and go from there. Good luck.
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Decision Tree Analysis involves methodically mapping out all the options you have for a given decision, then applying the following 'expected value' formula to each option:\n\nexpected value  = probability x outcome\n\nFor instance, let's say I'm trying to decide whether to put $100 into the stock market or to put it under my mattress.  Let's also say there is a 60% chance that my investment will become $200, and a 40% chance that my investment will shrink to $10 (I just made these numbers up).  The expected value of putting my money in the stock market is:\n\n(60% * $200) + (40% * $10) = $124\n\nSince $124 is higher than the $100 that I would get by stuffing the money in my mattress, decision tree analysis would say I should put the money in the market.\n\nDecision Tree Analysis can get very complex very quickly when you think of all the options available to a given decision.  Good luck!
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To know about one of the options accounting..\n\n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/
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If you have stock options, you have the right to purchase stock at a set price. The price you'll pay is set by the Board of Directors (usually). If the company is pre-IPO, the price may be quite low. The hope is that when the company goes public, your stock will be worth more than the option price.\n\nThe vesting schedule sets forth the time and amount of stock you can purchase.
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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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You now have 2 call options (200 shares) if it's a 2 for 1 split.  Works the same as a stock split.  More stock lower price.
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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
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http://www.fairmark.com/ if you mean employee stock options.
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go to yahoo stock screener and input 5% in div yield field. it will give you a long list. then use other fields to narrow it down to what you are looking for.