List of Derivatives Articles

Any trading in the capital markets is risky and there is no getting away from it. The best you can do is to smartly and prudently manage this risk.

For financial planners, options could be a great tool to tide over turbulence in markets when things are uncertain, Vatsal Ramaiya says

A futures contract is a right and obligation to buy or sell a contract at a future date at a price that is determined and agreed upon today.

Max Pain is the financial situation that is defined by the strike price of most live options contracts.

If you are an investor looking for short-term financial instruments, Options is a great option. It is a derivative contract that gives the owner the right to buy or sell securities at an agreed-upon price within a certain period.

Nifty options have emerged as the most liquid trading contract on the NSE. Today, options on the Nifty alone account for more than 80% of the total volumes on the NSE on a daily basis. This volume becomes higher as the expiry for the month approaches. Let us first spend a moment on the idea of a Nifty option.

Rollover may sound like a complex and high flying esoteric word but in reality it is quite simple. You must have heard the word rollover quite often concerning futures. Traders often refer to rollover in the stock market as long rollover or short rollover.

It often happens that you plan to put some trades in stocks like BHEL, Sun TV or Vodafone Idea in the futures & options market but then your broker tells you that you cannot take fresh positions as the stock is in the F&O Ban List.

Managing risk is among the most important functions of security markets and one of the biggest risks is time. Time is a risk because prices change constantly

A bullish options strategy can be an effective way to increase your investment profits while reducing the amount of risk at any given time.

Options trading is a lucrative yet risky investment avenue. The risk, as well as rewards involved in Options, tend to be higher.

In India, the futures and options market has currently become a popular avenue for investors seeking a more significant portion of the Indian stock market. The craze of F&O in India holds a strong grip over the investors. Nevertheless, several traders and investors who are a beginner in the derivative market are primarily uninformed of the process of how it works or the concept of […]

A Long Call Condor, similar to a long butterfly strategy, is a neutral market-view strategy that offers limited risk and profit.

An option is a right to buy without the obligation to buy or a right to sell without the obligation to sell. The former is the buyer of a call option and the latter is the buyer of a put option.

One of the most popular and widely used words in the lexicon of F&O trading is open interest. As the name suggests, open interest represents the open futures and options positions in the market that are yet to be closed out or exercised or expired.