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short selling, puts, and calls

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  1. dangood1 dangood1 is offline

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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 7:59pm)

    can someone help explain the differences in these in the most basic form possible for those of us who dont have much knowledge on these
    maybe a cause and effect scenerio
    since many people like to talk gold, we can use that as an example.
    if i buy a call what happens when i purchase, when the price rises what happens: when the price falls what happens etc.
    i know these have been talked about before but just trying to get these concepts down
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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 8:02pm) in reply to dangood1

    http://www.pocketfives.com/f13/who-w...t-kind-645060/
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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 8:09pm) in reply to coolhandkev

    Short selling=

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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 8:33pm) in reply to LeftyMark

    thats awsome
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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 8:34pm) in reply to dangood1

     
    Originally Posted by dangood1 View Post

    thats awsome

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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 8:57pm) in reply to LeftyMark

    If you don't have much experience with them whatever info you are going to get on here is probably not going to be very helpful. There is tons of info on options if you google it and it's all pretty much in basic terms.

    i will say that unless you are long stocks and want to use them as a hedging strategy they are mostly just a legalized form of gambling and should probably be avoided.

    You can start with this. Something to keep in mind is one contract is based on 100 shares of a stock. So if you buy a call you are buying the right to take 100 shares of a stock off of someone at a particular price by a certain date or let it expire. You still have to pay for the 100 shares.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_...rican_style.29
    Edited By: rocket5 Aug 19th, 2011 at 08:59 PM
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    Aug 19th, 2011 (8/19/2011 9:00pm) in reply to LeftyMark

     
    Originally Posted by LeftyMark View Post

    Short selling=

    Too bad this will go overlooked because not many will open this thread, wp
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