Stock Option Terminology

Stock Option Terms:
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• American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
• American Style Options
• Arbitrage
• Ask
• ATM (At the Money)
• At the Opening Order
• Automatic Exercise
• Backspread
• Bear Call Spread
• Bear Put Spread
• Bid
• Bid-Ask Spread
• Blow off Top
• Breakeven
• Breakout
• Bull Call Spread
• Bull Put Spread
• Butterfly Spread
• CAC 40 Index
• Calendar Spread
• Call Option
• Call Premium
• Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
• Class of Options
• Clearing House
• Commission on Options
• Commodity Options
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Condor Strategy
• Contract (option)
• Covered Call
• Covered Put
• Credit Spread
• Day Trading
• Debit Spread
• Deep in the Money Option (DTM)
• Delayed Time Quotes
• Delta
• Delta Hedge
• Delta Neutral
• Derivative Options
  
• Discount Option Brokers
• Divergence
• Dividend Yield
• Downside Risk
• Equity Options
• European Style Options
• Exchange (Options)
• Exercise Price
• Exercise Option
  
• Expiration Date (Options)
  
• Expiration Date Calendar
  
• Extrinsic Option Value
• Fair Market Value of Options
  
• Fair Value of Options
  
• Fibonacci Retracement
• Fill Order
• Fill or Kill Order
• Floor Broker
• Floor Trader
• Fundamental Analysis
• Futures Contracts
• Gamma
• Gap
• Guts Spread
• Hedge
• Historic Volatility
• Index Options
• Interest Rate Options
• In the Money Options (ITM)
• Intrinsic Option Value
• Iron Butterfly
• Japanese Candlesticks
• LEAP's Options
• Leg
• Leg in/ Leg out
• LIFFE
• Limit Order
• Liquidity
• Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
• Margin Call
• Margin Requirements
• Mark to Market
• Market if Touched Order (MIT)
• Market Maker (Options)
• Market on Close Order
• Market on Open Order
• Momentum Indicators
• Momentum Traders
• Moving Average
• Naked Calls
• Naked Puts
• Near the Money Option (NTM)
• New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
• OEX
• On the Money Option or At the Money Option
• Open Outcry
• Opportunity Cost
• Option
• Option Premium
• Option Writer
• Out of the Money Option (OTM)
• Position Delta
• Premium
• Price Bar
• Put Option
• Quote (Option)
• Ratio Backspread
• Ratio Call Spread
• Ratio Put Spread
• Real Time Option Quotes
• Relative Strength Index (RSI)
• Reversal Stop (Stop and Reverse Order)
• Risk Free Rate
• Risk Profile
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Series (Options)
• Short
• Short Selling
• Speculator
• Spread (Options)
• Standard & Poor's (S&P)
• Stochastic
• Stock Split
• Stop Orders
• Straddle
• Strangle
• Strike Price
• Support
• Synthetic Long Call Option
• Synthetic Long Put Option
• Synthetic Long Stock
• Synthetic Short Call Option
• Synthetic Short Put Option
• Synthetic Short Stock
• Synthetic Straddle
• Technical Analysis
• Theoretical Value (Options)
• Theta (Option Decay)
• Time Premium
• Time Value (Intrinsic Value)
• Triple Witching Day
• Uncovered Option
• Underlying Asset
• Vega
• VIX
• Volatility
• Volatility Skew
• Volume
• Whipsaw
• Witching Day
• Writer (Options)
• Yield
• Zeta