摘要: The additional amount of service years that Canadian pensioners can purchase to go towards their pension account. Pensioners may purchase additional service time to cover service absences for reasons [阅读全文:]
摘要: An option strategy:
-Buy one put option contract with 90 days or more until expiration
-Sell one put option contract (at the same strike price) with 45 days or less until expiration
-In 45 d[阅读全文:]
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One of the four types of compound options, this is a "put" option on an underlying "call" option. The buyer of a put on a call has the right but not the obligation to sell the underlying call o[阅读全文:]
摘要: The most basic or standard version of a financial instrument, usually options, bonds, futures and swaps. Plain vanilla is the opposite of an exotic instrument, which alters the components of a traditi[阅读全文:]
摘要: The modern composite-margin requirements that must be maintained in a derivatives account containing options and/or futures contracts. Portfolio margin accounting requires a margin position that is eq[阅读全文:]
摘要: A strategy of holding two offsetting positions, one of which creates an incoming cashflow that is greater than the obligations of the other.
Similar to arbitrage, positive carries genera[阅读全文:]
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1. In investing, income that is earned through the sale of an option. The writer of an option earns premium income; the buyer of the option pays the writer a premium in order to have the right (but[阅读全文:]
摘要: An exotic option that is valued according to pre-determined price requirements for its underlying asset or commodity.
The payoffs associated with these options are determined by the path[阅读全文:]
摘要: An annuitization-method option with which the annuitant selects a specific time period for which the annuity income payments will last. This is unlike the more commonly selected life option, with whic[阅读全文:]
摘要: A non-standard financial option with no fixed maturity and no exercise limit. While the life of a standard option can vary from a few days to several years, a perpetual option (XPO) can be exercised a[阅读全文:]