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Lesson 6 of 63Contracts and moneyCurriculum

Option contracts: what you are buying

Identify a contract from its underlying, type, strike and expiry, and turn a quoted price into dollars.

Builds on Lesson 3, Trading an option: from chain to order. That lesson found a contract in a chain; this one names it exactly, turns its quote into dollars, and ties each price to a moment.

Interactive lesson on option contracts

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Interactive lesson on option contracts

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Apply what you just explored to a guided case with feedback, then to a new case on your own. It's optional: moving on and your study mark don't depend on it.

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