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Spring Loading

The practice of granting options (employee or executive stock options– ESOs) just before the announcement of key information that is…

Contract Size

In futures and option contracts, it refers to the amount or units of an asset to be delivered as dictated…

Butterfly Spread

A neutral option strategy (limited profit and limited risk strategy) that combines a bull spread and a bear spread. This…

Bottom Fishing Option

An option that allows the holder to specify a certain price level that caps his range of participation in spot…

Backward Starting Asian Option

An Asian option in which the average underlying price is computed over a subinterval of the trading period, rather than…

Buy In

A transactional procedure whereby the obligation to sell (deliver) or buy (accept) the underlying stock in a derivative contract can...

Backward Starting Option

An option in which the average underlying price is computed over a subinterval of the trading period, rather than the…

Belgian Option

An option whose payoff is partially based on the movement of its underlying asset from initial cash price to the…

Cash-Secured Put

A put option which confers on the holder the right to buy the underlying stock at a price below the...

Cap Option

An option on a cap. For short, it is dubbed "caption". In other words, a caption is an option to...