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call option

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Noun1.call option - an option to buy
stock option - the right to buy or sell a stock at a specified price within a stated period
2.call option - the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
straddle, span - the act of sitting or standing astride
option - the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
put, put option - the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date


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If you want to take advantage of any futures rally, buy a call option to do it.
Goodyear will exercise its call option and purchase the remaining 20% of Sava Tires owned by Slovenia's Sava d.
2002-66, the Service held that if a grantor of a qualified covered call option (QC) holds a put option on the same underlying equity, the purchased put will cause the stock and the QC to be part of a larger straddle and ineligible for the Sec.
 
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