This is part 5 of Demystifying Options... If you are not familiar with options, I would suggest reading my first 4 posts: Demystifying Options Part 1 - Introduction to options Demystifying Options Part 2 - Selling Put options Demystifying Options Part 3 - Buying Put options Demystifying Options Part 4 - Selling Call options A short recap on the types of options available... There are 2 types of options - Put option and Call option. You can buy and sell both of them. This post will be discussing about BUYING call options. When you BUY an opti
Following my previous post which talked about the quick analysis on $Alibaba(09988)$ $Alibaba(BABA)$ and JD after both announced their earnings last night, I will go a little more in depth about each company’s valuation and see how much should we change with our valuation model.We will start first with Baba, and then I’ll do another one in the next post with JD.The goal here is to look at it objectively (rather than from a biased point of view because of vested position), so I’ll flex my objective thoughts and if you agree or disagree you are more than welcome to let me know your thoughts in the comment sections below (though please provide your reasoning so we can have a meanin
In the E-commerce industry, both this 2 companies, $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ & $Alibaba(BABA)$$Alibaba(09988)$ are the strongest among all. With that being said, which company would be the best investment of the next decade?Lets look at the key takeaways: Both this company operate internationally. However, 92% of Alibaba's revenue comes from China. While for Amazon, only 64% comes from United States, while the rest comes from other countries. This shows that Amazon's revenue is more diversified and not just contributed from one country. Amazon's revenue is extremely high compared to Alibaba. For 12 months ended Q1 FY2020, Amaz