What is ‘Call Over’
When the buyer of a call option exercises the option. In options trading, the buyer of a call option can exercise his or her right to purchase or sell the underlying asset (such as a stock) at the exercise price or strike price.
Explaining ‘Call Over’
Buyers of options can either exercise their right to buy the underlying security or they can let the option expire wothless. A call over can take place throughout the life of the option until the exercise cut-off time that falls on the last trading day prior to the option contract’s expiration.
Further Reading
- The future of entrepreneurship research: Calling all researchers – www.degruyter.com [PDF]
- Marginal abatement cost curves: a call for caution – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- The call of the wild: Call centers and economic development in rural areas – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
- The financial crisis of 2008: A clarion call to include economic policy and financial illiteracy on public administration's intellectual radar screen – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- A call for replication studies – journals.sagepub.com [PDF]
- Varieties of economic constructivism in political economy: Uncertain times call for disparate measures – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Conference calls and information asymmetry – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Tests of the Black-Scholes and Cox call option valuation models – www.jstor.org [PDF]