McMillan Asset Management - Understanding Leaps
This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 1, No. 4 on February 13, 1992.
LEAPS is an acronym for Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities. This is a wordy name for "long-term option". A LEAPS (or is it a LEAP?) is nothing more than a listed call or put option that is issued with two or more years of time remaining. It is therefore a longer-term option than one is used to dealing with. Other than that, there