Will Form 5495 Expiration 2017-2023

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again at option alpha comm in this video we're gonna go through the entire options expiration and assignment process and basically give you a rundown on everything that you need to know now for new traders expiration and assignment can be a little scary and confusing and I get that but in today's video we're going to break it down in simple bite-sized chunks that give you a clear understanding of how it all works and again clear understanding equals confidence in what you're going to be doing as you start getting deeper and deeper into options trading first it's important that we remember that options contracts have a finite expiration date and that they are derivatives of underlying stocks or ETFs or indexes and therefore they're regulated differently than an actual stock so I first want to introduce options expiration assignment by talking about the options Clearing Corp or OCC now this is the company regulatory body whatever you want to call them that's jointly owned by all the exchanges that trade options and they issue all the options and control and all the effects and controls and effects all exercises and assignments and what's really important to understand about the OCC is that they basically guarantee all trades by acting as a counterparty to any purchase or sale of options there by providing a liquid market to trade now I'll get to a low graph here in a second that kind of describes what OCC is but again it's there acting as a counterparty to guarantee all trades they're not acting as the other person that you're trading with so for example you're not if you're an option buyer you're not buying options directly from the OCC they're not going to be...