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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's market, where 90% in cash must be put up to buy stocks, put and call options have a new allure. They enable speculators to maintain a position in stocks for as little as 5% of the stock's market value at the time of purchase. This year such options will account for trading of about 8,000,000 shares, nearly 1% of all the shares traded on the N.Y. Stock Exchange annually...
Call options are most popular with bulls, who think the market will rise. A call is a negotiable contract giving the purchaser the right to buy stock, usually in 100 share lots, any time during a specified period running from 21 days to a year or more. For example, last June Filer sold a six-month, ten-day call on American Motors for $625. This gave the purchaser the right to buy 100 shares of American Motors at 37⅛ at any time before the option expires on Dec. 7. With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already...
...option seller to avoid big losses, Filer cites two rules: 1) never sell a call option unless you own the stock, since you may have to buy it at a higher price if the call is exercised; and 2) never sell a put option unless you have the money to pay for the stock if the stock is put to you. "Following these rules," says Filer, "the risk in selling options is no greater than the risk in owning stocks...
...spectacular trajectory of its own. From $118 a year and a half ago, the 657,600 shares of Machines Bull jumped to more than $260 per share in September. The company recently announced plans to raise more capital by issuing 328,800 new shares. Shareholders were given rights to buy new shares, and the price jumped to $366. Today Machines Bull is valued on a stock basis at $240 million, among the top French companies...
...York local from Bronxville. Any doubt that the train may have left is banished by a well-preserved photo of the empty tracks of the New York Central (looking south). Later that day the hapless Goss would fail to heed his wife's injunction to buy parakeet food. And so it goes. All in all, as Poe would say, a most immemorial day-and a satire to remember, at least for a few days...