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What Is ‘Out of the Money’ (OTM)?

An option is 'out of the money' (OTM) when it has no intrinsic value, meaning exercising it immediately would result in a loss. For a call option, OTM means the underlying asset price is below the strike price.

For a put option, OTM means the underlying asset price is above the strike price. OTM options only have extrinsic value, which decays over time.

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