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Naked call




Naked call

A call option position held by a writer who does not hold a long position in the stock on which the call has been written.

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Call
An option that gives the holder the right to buy the underlying futures contract.

Option
The right but not the obligation to buy or sell a fixed quantity of a commodity, currency or security at a fixed price on or until a particular date.

Position
A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into.

Writer
A person who makes an opening sale of an option contract.

Hold
An analyst recommendation to neither buy nor sell a security.

Long
To have bought more of something than one has sold of it.  

Stock
US equivalent of the British word "share", a block of shares with a nominal value of 100, or various kinds of fixed-interest securities; in Britain, goods stored ready for sale, raw materials, work in progress and finished but unsold products.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Naked
An uncovered position such as the position of a writer of an option which is not covered by an opposite position in the underlying instrument.

Naked option
An option position where the buyer or seller has no underlying security position.

Naked option strategies
An unhedged strategy making exclusive use of one of the following: short call strategy (selling or writing call options), and short put strategy (selling or writing put options).

Naked position
A securities position that is not hedged from market risk.

Naked put
A put option whose writer does not have a short position in the stock on which he or she has written the put.

Naked shorting
The illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist.

Naked strategies
Writing an option without owning the underlying asset. Holder is naked because holder may have agreed to sell something not owned.

Naked writer
Uncovered call writing and Uncovered put writing.



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An uncovered position such as the position of a writer of an option which is not covered by an opposite position in the underlying instrument.

Naked call

Naked option
An option position where the buyer or seller has no underlying security position.

Naked option strategies
An unhedged strategy making exclusive use of one of the following: short call strategy (selling or writing call options), and short put strategy (selling or writing put options).

Naked position
A securities position that is not hedged from market risk.

Naked put
A put option whose writer does not have a short position in the stock on which he or she has written the put.

Naked shorting
The illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist.

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