What Is An Exercise Date?

Patrick Curtis

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Expertise:Investment Banking | Private Equity

Exercise date is part of an options contract and states the time by which the option must either be exercised or is disregarded. For European options, the option can only be exercised on the exercise date, whereas for U.S. options it can be exercised at any point up until the exercise date.

如果一个投资者不会选择运动选择ion by the date (i.e. the asset price is in the wrong direction compared to the strike price) then the option contract is just written off and the option cannot be traded.

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