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  2. Option symbol - Wikipedia

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    Before 2010, the ticker (trading) symbols for US options typically looked like this: IBMAF . This consisted of a root symbol ('IBM') + month code ('A') + strike price code ('F'). The root symbol is the symbol of the stock on the stock exchange. After this comes the month code, A-L mean January–December calls, M-X mean January–December puts.

  3. Options strategy - Wikipedia

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    Option strategies are the simultaneous, and often mixed, buying or selling of one or more options that differ in one or more of the options' variables. Call options, simply known as Calls, give the buyer a right to buy a particular stock at that option's strike price. Opposite to that are Put options, simply known as Puts, which give the buyer ...

  4. Option naming convention - Wikipedia

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    In financial markets, an option naming convention is a method of identifying which of many possible options is being quoted or traded. Standard Equity Option Convention [ edit ] US equity options, typically cleared by the Options Clearing Corporation , underwent an initiative between 2008 and 2010 to change the standard symbology.

  5. Page table - Wikipedia

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    The page table is a key component of virtual address translation that is necessary to access data in memory. The page table is set up by the computer's operating system, and may be read and written during the virtual address translation process by the memory management unit or by low-level system software or firmware.

  6. DNA and RNA codon tables - Wikipedia

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    DNA and RNA codon tables. The standard RNA codon table organized in a wheel. A codon table can be used to translate a genetic code into a sequence of amino acids. [1] [2] The standard genetic code is traditionally represented as an RNA codon table, because when proteins are made in a cell by ribosomes, it is messenger RNA (mRNA) that directs ...

  7. Straddle - Wikipedia

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    A short straddle is a non-directional options trading strategy that involves simultaneously selling a put and a call of the same underlying security, strike price and expiration date. The profit is limited to the premium received from the sale of put and call. The risk is virtually unlimited as large moves of the underlying security's price ...

  8. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    The GUID Partition Table ( GPT) is a standard for the layout of partition tables of a physical computer storage device, such as a hard disk drive or solid-state drive, using universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), which are also known as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs).

  9. File descriptor - Wikipedia

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    Overview File descriptors for a single process, file table and inode table. Note that multiple file descriptors can refer to the same file table entry (e.g., as a result of the dup system call: 104 ) and that multiple file table entries can in turn refer to the same inode (if it has been opened multiple times; the table is still simplified because it represents inodes by file names, even ...