Options Clearing Corporation: Guaranteeing Our Options Trades
Oct 11, 2014 | Investment Basics, Option Trading Basics, Options Trade Execution
Covered call writing and selling cash-secured puts involves investing our hard-earned money. Did you ever wonder who guarantees these trades? It’s not our broker or even our broker’s clearing firm. It’s the Options Clearing Corporation or the OCC....
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