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An agreement that gives the holder the option but not the obligation to buy or sell an underlying asset at a fixed price until or on a specific date. The holder is the trader who buys the contract and the writer is the trader who sells the contract. The two most common types of options contracts are put and call options, which give the holder the right to sell or buy, respectively, the underlying asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An agreement that gives the holder the option but not the obligation to buy or sell an underlying asset at a fixed price until or on a specific date. The holder is the trader who buys the contract and the writer is the trader who sells the contract. 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