F & O- An Birds View

Spot Markets, Futures and Option contracts can helps traders to maximize their returns and to minimize their risk
Exchanges with respect to derivative instruments play a major role in futures and options.
A call premium is the price of a call option
Strike price is the predetermined price upon which the buyer and the seller of an option have agreed is the strike price, also called the exercise price or the striking price.
A futures contract is a legal agreement, generally made on the trading floorof a futures exchange, to buy or sell a particular commodity or financial instrument at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future.
An option is a financial derivative that represents a contract sold by one party (the option writer) to another party (the option holder).
‘Calls’ give the buyer the right, but not the obligationto buy a given quantity of the underlying asset, at a given price on or before a given future date.
‘Puts’ give the buyer the right, but not the obligationto sell a given quantity of underlying asset at a given price on or before a given future date.
For Nifty futures contracts, the permitted lot size is 50, and in multiples of 50. Like other futures contracts, Nifty futures contracts also have a three-month trading cycle — the near-month, the next month and the far-month
Futures contracts are either cash settled or physically delivered.