OPTIONS CONTRACT
Option contract allows the holder to either buy or sell an underlying security at a specific given price which is known as the strike price. Put and call options are the two most common type of options contracts, which give the holder-buyer the right to sell or buy respectively, the underlying at the strike if the price of the underlying crosses the strike. Typically each options contract is written on 100 shares of the underlying.
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