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Old 03-17-2006, 09:16 AM   #19
Ulic Qel-Droma
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Originally posted by Valour
option = the right to buy or sell a stock at a certain price. Usually the contract is the right to buy 100 shares of a stock. Therefore, the option will have several elements: an expiry date of when u can exercise the option, the price that you get to buy or sell the stock at, and the actual cost of the option
sounds a lot like a future...
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