How exactly do you find out the price to purchase a stock option?
Learn investing first. Advanced derivatives require advanced knowledge. An option is a wasting asset and just buying one is pointless unless you know what you're doing. They are also a leveraged asset, and leveraging ignorance is stupid. You would NOT normally buy 100 shares of an option, but each option contract covers 100 shares of stock.
You can find all kinds of information about any company, its stock price and options on Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Money, whatever.
http://finance.yahoo.com/
Just type the name of the company or ticker symbol in the Quote Lookup box; I'll use AAPL.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl&ql=1
If you want option prices, click on the left sidebar for Options.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL+Opt...
You usually buy them around the bid and ask price. The "last" price is what you need to look at. Just buy it at what the market gives you, unless you think you can get a better deal using limit orders.
Check out the column "last" for these appl options.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL+Opt...
You also need to move the decimal point over two spaces, so if an option says 9.00, you need to buy it for 900 dollars.
I know you have to buy a hundred shares. But how do you find out the price. Is it the bid and ask?
How exactly do you find out the price to purchase a stock option?
