For investors, options have brought new risk management solutions. For traders, options have opened a new trading field. Therefore, understanding the characteristics of options is an important topic. To this end, Haitong Futures and Options Department specially summarized several characteristics of options, and shared them as follows:
An option means that the buyer has the right to choose to buy or sell the agreed asset at the strike price at the agreed time in the future, and the seller of the option must assume the obligation to perform when the buyer chooses to exercise.