Options glossary · The contract
Put option
The right, not the obligation, to sell the underlying at the strike. Exercised only when the underlying is below the strike.
The formula
Payoff at expiry = max(K − S, 0)
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
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