strike price

noun

: an agreed-upon price at which an option contract can be exercised

called also striking price

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Red Flag Warning Will Remain Until Friday Evening As Blazes Burn More Than 2,000 Structures Google’s Gmail Upgrade—Do Not Lose Your Account Today, call options with strike prices just above ISRG’s current price fetch a $10+/share premium. Brett Owens, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 If the price of the stock moves by $1, then it’s either moved closer to or further away from the strike price (along with the passing of time and whatever else may have happened to cause that move). Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2024 Tesla then filed its own claims that JPMorgan had taken advantage of the tweet to reduce the strike price of more than 1.9 million warrants. Royce Branning, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2024 An option is a type of financial contract that grants the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy (call option) or sell (put option) an asset at a predetermined price (the strike price) by a specific date (the expiration date). Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strike price 

Word History

First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of strike price was in 1972

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“Strike price.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20price. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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