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Lesson 8 of 63Contracts and moneyCurriculum

Premium, payoff and profit: both sides of the trade

Calculate premium, payoff and profit for the buyer and the writer, and see why in the money can still lose.

Builds on Lesson 2, Options: a paid right with a deadline and Lesson 4, Risk first: how options lose money. Those lessons showed a call's value at expiry and a writer's open-ended loss; this one splits a price into intrinsic and time value, finds the break-even, and works out both sides' results.

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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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