All About Options

Options are contracts, which gives the buyer (holder) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell specified quantity of the underlying assets, at a specific (strike) price on or before a specified time (expiration date).The underlying may be commodities like wheat/ rice/ cotton/ gold/ oil or financial instruments like equity stocks/ stock

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Mechanics Of Trading In Futures Index

In India, Derivative Products for trading in index Futures were launched in June 2000.Following are the basic features of index contracts : The S&P CNX Nifty Futures Contract has the 50 share S&P CNX Nifty Index as the underlying reference and trades on the National Stock Exchange .The Sensex Futures Contract has the 30 share BSE Sensex as

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