Option Premium

The price of the option contract: intrinsic value plus time value.

What is Option Premium?

What the buyer pays and the seller receives. Intrinsic value is the amount the option is in the money; the rest is time value, which decays toward zero at expiration and rises with volatility.

Option Premium: a worked example

Stock at $52, $50 call trading at $3.20 = $2.00 intrinsic + $1.20 time value.

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