It sounds like something a physicist might try to replicate in a lab, but a floortion is actually something that can help us sorta kinda hedge our bets in certain financial markets.
All investments carry some type of risk. But we can try to mitigate some of that risk by (instead of buying or selling actual options) buying or selling options on options. It’s like saying, “We’re not sure we want this thing, but if its price changes and meets these conditions here, then we might want to buy it.”
A floortion is one of those option options; basically, we buy (or sell) the right to buy (or sell) an option if it hits a certain low price, or price floor. We don’t have to buy/sell it, but we have the right to buy/sell it. And if it goes below that price floor, we get a little payout.
Floortions come with a predetermined date range; if the option doesn’t decrease to or beyond our chosen strike price by, say, December 1, then we could forfeit the right to exercise it.
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Finance allah shmoop what is the intrinsic value of an
option All right this is brandi She owns a twelve
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Well the stock is trading for fifteen bucks a share
of this moment Her strike price is twelve so the
intrinsic value of that option is fifteen minutes twelve or
three bucks that is it is three dollars in the
money and if brandy converted it into a share this
moment and then immediately sold the stock for fifteen dollars
in cash well she'd make three bucks But there's a
catch per call option doesn't expire for five weeks so
that three dollars in the money is actually worth more
than three dollars because she has data or time yet
to exercise and convert or just sell the option itself
So it's worth mohr because well a stock might go
up from fifteen dollars in overtime Stocks go up so
in the next five weeks well couldn't go up a
dime twenty cents twenty five cents and make that three
Dollars worth three ten three twenty three Twenty five Sure
sure it could happen So yeah that's The difference between
actual value and intrinsic value You get seita kickers in
there making the option's worth more than just converting them
into stock and selling them right there And yeah it
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