Category Futures & Options

Money Making Candlestick

Money Making Candlestick Formations Candlestick Line   Candlestick Line Candlestick lines and charts — traditional Japanese charts whose individual lines look like candles, hence their name.  The candle- stick line is comprised of a real body and shadows.   See “Real body”…

Futures Stock Options Glossary

QUICK REFERENCE GLOSSARY ON FUTURES AND OPTIONS FUTURES TERMINOLOGY SPOT PRICE: The price at which an asset trades in the spot market. FUTURES PRICE: The price at which the futures contract trades in the futures market. CONTRACT CYCLE: The period over which a contract trades. The index…

Stock Market Trading

ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS OF COVERED CALL STRATEGY ‘The biggest advantage of covered call strategy is it increases and improves the odds of successful trading. Another biggest share tips benefit is that it can be implemented in two of the three possible stock…

Stock Trading

WRITING COVERED CALLS  Writing (Selling) Call Options when you already own the underlying is called writing covered call options. It is against writing Naked options which can have unlimited risk. HOW WRITING COVERED CALL OPTION WORKS As discussed earlier a…

Options Premium Value

TAXATION OF DERIVATIVES TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES  SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS TAX ON DERIVATIVES TRANSACTIONS Finance Act (N0.2) of 2004 has introduced Securities Transactions Tax on all derivatives transactions entered into a recognized stock exchange. This tax is payable by the seller of…

Equity Index

ACCOUNTING AT THE INCEPTION 0f THE CONTRACT Every client is required to pay to the trading member/ clearing member, the initial margin determined by the clearing corporation as per the bye-laws/regulations of the exchange for entering into an equity index futures…

Future Trading

REPORTING OF CLIENT MARGIN Clearing Members and Trading Members are required to collect upfront initial margins from all their Trading Members L constituents. Clearing members are required to compulsorily report, on a daily basis, details in respect of such margin…