"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild)

"Most people are obsessed with money. Hardly anyone is interested in it."
(Wm. Shakespeare)

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FTSE 100 Shares Index (Value) 15 minutes delay. BBC Page
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Since it's inception in August 2000 the Club has paid out £253,000 in profits to members. Members are strongly advised to withdraw accumulated profits regularly; trading options is always riskier than trading in the underlying securities (i.e the 100 companies whose shares make up the so-called 'FTSE 100 Index')


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My Open Option Contracts

(Updated weekly on Friday at close of business, or whenever I re-arrange any of my positions - except I haven't updated them for MONTHS because no one ever reads the blog. See my comments above!)

FTSE INDEX OPTION CONTRACTS
12 x 6850 Short (*) Calls (November 2014 Series)
12 x 6300 Short Puts (November 2014 Series)
Index closed at 6495.6 on 07/10/2014
Expiry on 21st. November 2014

(*) "Short" in the context of option trading means the contracts were opened by selling them.
(**) "Covered" Calls means I have the shares to meet any assignment by the counterparty
(***) "Cash Covered" Puts means I have sufficient cash in my trading account to buy the shares if assigned by the counterparty.


Thursday, 7 May 2009

Option on U.K.Gilts . . .

. . . there aren't any! This is because bond markets are proper markets whereas equity markets are not. So the bond prices do not gyrate the way equity prices do. Bond prices move with interest rates and anticipated changes in the inflation rate (and approach to maturity) and to some extent with equities. Equity prices move with the weather, the vapourings of experts, the snapping of red braces and with the Masters of the Universe (including your pension fund managers) buying and selling them by the millions and tens of millions so that the bets they have made on their "futures" positions come out right. Equities go up because they are going up because traders can see lots of buy trades going across their screens, and go down because etc. . etc. Fear and greed rule the trade in equities so price fluctuations are sufficient to create a worthwhile market in derivatives (options). Many traders also use options to hedge their futures. Futures expire quarterly in June, September etc. Consult the Euronext pages to see the huge "open interest" options in these months.
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