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Finding Your "Zero Point" (How to Calculate Breakeven)
When you buy a "Right to Buy" ticket, you are hoping the actual price of Bitcoin rises above your locked-in target price. However, just because the price crosses your target doesn't mean you are instantly making money. Why? Because your ticket wasn't free, youAll articles
How to Calculate Your Profit and Loss (The Easy Way)
In this lesson, we will walk through exactly how to calculate your profit or loss when you buy a "Right to Buy" ticket on ClickOptions. For simplicity, we are going to ignore small trading fees in these examples. Scenario A: Cashing In Early There is a massive misconception
The 5 Parts of Your "Click Ticket" - An introduction to the call option section
As we learned in our previous lesson, every Click Ticket is built using 5 simple parts: 1. The underlying asset (What coin you are tracking) 2. The option type (Whether you want the right to buy or the right to sell) 3. The expiry date (The exact date your ticket
How Big is Your "Click Ticket"?
Just one more simple rule to learn before we show you the live trading screens. We already know that buying an option on ClickOptions is like buying a "Click Ticket". It gives you the power to lock in the price of a cryptocurrency for a future date. But
Understanding Options Settlement (Physical vs. Cash)
Today, when you trade an option, you are buying a contract that gives you the right to buy or sell an asset at a locked-in price. But what happens on the day that contract expires? In the financial world, there are two ways to settle the score: Physical Settlement and
Time to Take Action – Understanding "Exercise" and Option Styles
In our previous steps, we talked about how a "Click Ticket" (an option) gives you the right to buy or sell something. When you finally decide to use that right, it is called "Exercising" the option. • Exercising a Call Option: You are officially telling the market,
Option contract parameters
In our last step, we learned that a derivative is a smart contract that tracks the price of something else (like Bitcoin), saving you the hassle of buying and storing the real thing. An Option is a very specific, powerful type of derivative. It gives the buyer the right to