Posts With Tag: Trading

What Even is an Option?

Calls, puts, and some interesting things about how options are priced.

Options allow us to make a bet on something without having to own it. But what are we actually buying? Let’s define calls, puts, strikes, and expiries, and see how they lead us to volatility and the Greeks.

Option Pricing!

Estimating option prices with delta and gammas

Approximate option prices using the second-order Delta-Gamma Taylor expansion, with an interactive mental math trainer.


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