Glossary · Options Foundations · C
Call option in plain English.
An option whose owner can BUY 100 shares at the strike price. Calls gain value when the stock rises.
Track
Options Foundations
11 terms in this track
Taught in
Calls and puts, the four positions
In the index
17 of 129
Filed under C
Connections
8
Related terms mapped below
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The idea, in context
How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.
Reading the illustration
A covered call caps the upside at the strike in exchange for the premium; the dashed line is the shares alone.
In French: Option call
Where it’s taught
Options Foundations
Calls and puts, the four positions
“Calls and puts, the four positions” introduces this term with worked examples, a quiz and the trades around it. The Academy is part of the YieldCove membership.
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Connected terms
8 terms around this one — the words its definition uses, its lesson siblings and the terms that build on it.
- Used in this definition
- Same lesson
- Builds on this term
- Same track
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Where to go next
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