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Option Premium: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Value

What you actually pay for when you buy an option. The premium split into intrinsic value (real, exercisable worth) and extrinsic value (time and possibility), the four forces that move it, why options decay, and how implied volatility prices uncertainty.

15 min readPublished 25 June 2026

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