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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Covered Calls / Options Contracts
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:18:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.231853.18155@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: Options
- References: <1993Jan20.212716.2901@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.212716.2901@netcom.com> hcb@netcom.com (H. C. Bowman) writes:
- >I've been following the discussion of covered calls with some interest,
- >and now a couple of questions occur to me. First off, is there some
- >canonical number of "contracts" that people expect to be traded at once?
- >That is, if I call up my broker and order him to sell x number of calls,
- >will he laugh at me if x is not a multiple of y, where y is the canonical
-
-
- No, no laughs. One option is certainluy tradable.
-
- However, the percentage commission drops quite a bit if you trade 2,
- and even more if you trade 5 ...
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- >number? Secondly, this "contract" business referres to 100 shares, right?
- >So that if I sell "a call," this obligates me to sell (upon demand) 100
- >shares of a stock at the strike price? Furthermore, when I ponder the
- >issuance of a call, am I right to expect 100 times the listed trading
- >price of the option? (minus the commission, of course...)
-
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- Right.
-
- There are exceptions when the stock splits or spins off other
- companies, but for the most part you are right.
-
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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