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Options Trading Tips

• Options give you the right to buy or sell a security.

• When you buy an option, the most you can lose is the amount you pay for the option.

• Each option corresponds to 100 shares of underlying security.

• When you buy an option, it is a cash purchase, there is no margin requirement.

• The maximum profit when you write an option is the amount of the premium received.

•  An option loses its time value the fastest during the last 30 days before expiration.

• More than 80% of options expire worthless.

• The lower the underlying futures volatility, the lower the option premiums.

• The higher the underlying futures volatility, the higher the option premiums.

• Options are less liquid than the underlying futures.

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