Exercise uses the buyer's right. Assignment requires a seller to buy shares for a put or deliver shares for a call at the strike price.
Lesson 14
Exercise and assignment
A buyer exercises an option to use its right. An assigned seller must fulfil the contract.
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Read the duty behind a sold sample put and a sold sample call. Each of the four checkpoints ends with a two-answer question. Nothing places a trade.
CHECKPOINT 1 OF 4
Choose SOFI
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When the chart loads, follow its highlighted control to earn your first checkpoint.
- Choose SOFI
- Read the buyer's right, upcoming
- Read a sold put's duty, upcoming
- Read a sold call's duty, upcoming
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