List of Derivatives Articles

What do we understand by the term “Hedge”. The word hedge means protection or covering your risk.

The bear put spread strategy or bear put spread is when an investor sells a put option while simultaneously buying another put option with the same underlying asset and the expiration date.

The credit spread Options strategy is a simple yet popular trading strategy. It involves buying and selling Call or Put Options with the same underlying asset and expiration date.

Futures and Options represent Derivatives of the stock market. These Derivatives are the financial instruments deriving their values from an underlying such as currency, gold, or the stocks of a company.

Professional investors rely on their income from the Indian financial market to make a living. Hence, they need to find investments with the highest profit potential.

Currency options are a low upfront cost method of participating in the currency derivatives market. Like currency futures, currency options are also available on pairs like the USDINR, EURINR, GBPINR etc.

What do we understand by the term “Hedge”. The word hedge means protection or covering your risk.

when you hold naked options, you actually hold an option without holding the underlying security or the commodity.

The bear put spread strategy or bear put spread is when an investor sells a put option while simultaneously buying another put option with the same underlying asset and the expiration date.

The credit spread Options strategy is a simple yet popular trading strategy. It involves buying and selling Call or Put Options with the same underlying asset and expiration date.

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.

Futures and Options represent Derivatives of the stock market. These Derivatives are the financial instruments deriving their values from an underlying such as currency, gold, or the stocks of a company.

The Indian financial market is termed the ‘Market for Everyone’, as it includes financial instruments that can cater to the financial needs of every type of investor.

Equity investing is a great way to generate returns. However, there can be other rationales for investing in securities like leveraging a position or hedging risk.

Minimum margin or maintenance margin is the number of stocks investors must maintain in their margin account.