Options glossary · The contract
American option
Exercisable any time before expiry. Stock options are nearly always American. Early exercise is mostly rational just before a large dividend, because the call holder does not receive the dividend and the stockholder does.
Where it comes up
Part 1 of the course, Option basics and use cases: what an option is, how calls and puts pay off, and every Greek with the intuition before the maths. See the course →
The full picture
Three and a half hours with the man who traded these
Sven Hubens, ten years an options market maker at Optiver and Maven, adjunct faculty at The Options Institute at Cboe.
- 3h 32m of video in 58 chapters
- 128 slides
- Subtitles in 16 languages
- A certificate a firm can verify
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