Derivatives Options

Arbitrage is the purchase or sale of any financial instrument and the simultaneous taking of an equal and opposite position in a related market, in order to take advantage of small price differentials between markets. When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal [...]

Options are riskier to trade than stocks. That’s fairly well known. And we’ll get into why.
Since options have an expiry date the investor has to make a choice within a relatively short time frame. This adds risk and complexity to the trading scenario.
Also, since options are derivatives, they have no inherent worth. Their value is [...]