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caller

caller

5 8.8
An investor who buys a right to buy a stock later at a fixed price
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔːlər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : comprador de una opción de compra
  • If you can't come to the phone, return the caller's message within 24 hours or have a colleague return the call.

Examples

  • The caller purchased a call option, allowing him to buy the shares at a lower price later on.

  • Every day, the broker keeps track of the movements of several callers in the options market.

  • See exactly what causes cold callers to fail before they even have a chance of success, and what you should do instead.

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  • So the better part of that story is after we sold, I did AI, did a caller right where I sell calls and stocks and I buy puts on the stocks.

  • As a cautious investor, she became a caller, hoping to take advantage of fluctuations in the stock price.

Compounds

20 3.0

A service or device that shows the phone number and sometimes the name of an incoming call

A person who calls a radio or TV show for the first time

signal caller
  • Jargon
2 7.4

A player who leads the team's offense by calling plays, usually the quarterback

caller-out
  • Jargon
9.0

A person who calls the steps in a dance like a square dance

Surface Forms

caller singular
callers plural

Morphology

caller = call (semi-transparent) = call + er

The relation to a financial 'call' is clear within the domain, but the precise role 'buyer of a call option' is specialized jargon.

Etymology

Caller comes from the word call, which in finance means the right to 'ask for' or 'buy' something at a set price, so a caller is the investor who holds that right to buy an asset.