Taking a stake
When you buy shares in a company on the stock market, what you are doing is becoming a part owner in that business.
Your stake may be small, ... Read More...
For weeks after the election, we didn't know whether we were facing:
a Liberal-National government with a paper thin majority in the lower house, and facin... Read More...
WHAT HAVE OPTIONS GOT TO DO WITH IT?
An option is simply the right - but not the obligation - to buy (a 'call') or sell (a 'put') something.
They are more valuable the longer you have that right (because the market has longer to move in your favour) and the more volatile the market is - because the more the market swings about, the greater the potential gain.
