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发表于 2012-2-27 07:36 AM
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On Friday Feb 24, EUR future(March 2012) were selling for 1.3448
If you think EUR will go up and bought 1 call (of strike price of 1.34), you paid for 0.02010, expiring March 16, 2012. At any time if EUR goes up a lot and this call goes up, you can always sell this call to make money, say, you sold for 0.03010, then you will make 0.01, just like you buy and sell EUR and make 0.01, minus commission.
If you do not sell the call and hold until March16, 2012, at close, if EUR is selling at price 1.34000, then your call will be worth 0.00000, means you lose all your money of 0.02010. (If EUR is selling at any price lower than 1.34000, then your call will also be worth 0.00000, means you lose all your money of 0.02010...., but not any more than that....)
If EUR is selling at price 1.39000, then your call will be worth 0.05000, means you make 0.05000-0.02010, minus commission. If EUR is selling at price 1.49000, then your call will be worth 0.15000, means you make 0.15000-0.02010, minus commission.
Now do you understand buying calls now?
You also need to know how much is the commission; need to know when exactly option expires; and need to know the style, will they physical deliver the future to you? or just cash settle, meaning only minus or plus the money of your position's worth to your account.
Next things you need to know is:
selling naked call
buying put
selling naked put
Then you will learn combination, like condo, butterfly or strangle, diagonal, etc....
If you have sim account please play there for a while until you feel comfortable before you enter future option position with real money.
Hope this will help a little... |
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