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Options
A financial option is a derivative instrument that gives the buyer and seller the right but not the obligation to buy or sell an underlying asset (equities, bonds, commodities, currencies, indices etc) in a given quantity over a given period of time at an agreed level (the strike) for an agreed price (the premium).