Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2014

Abstract

While options do generally demonstrate an increase in prices as time increases, an annualized return of their excess premiums exhibit other characteristics including a lower return on options farther out of the money, that as the exercise price is farther out of the money that the expiration with the greatest annualized return is longer in time, and more interestingly that for underlying securities having larger standard deviations the greatest annualized option returns are found with options having shorter expirations.

Original Publication Citation

Higgins, Charles (2014). On maximizing annualized option returns. International Research Journal of Applied Finance, 5(10), 1271-1285.

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