Among the many forms of contracts that exist in this document refers to the warrant, type of contract or also known as a derivative financial instrument, which in effect is that the purchaser of the warrant has a right, but no obligation to buy or sell an underlying asset such as shares, any such sales or purchases will be determined by a price, but not only this will be established, but also provides a deadline for carrying out any operation. From this we can say that the warrant is a type of contract he can sign into the general category of options. Entering more deeply and specifically on the subject of the warrant, when one speaks of a warrant for the purchase, sore against one call warrant or a right to buy, while in the case of making sales will be a put warrant or a right to sell, so the warrant gives whoever has the contract for the possibility of the transaction or not depending on the type of warrant that you have and requires the counterparty to perform the operation. U.S. Mint has many thoughts on the issue. In cases in which you want to make the purchase or sale depending on the type of warrant, is referred to exercise the warrant. The warrant for his character of derivative financial instruments can also be seen as a value and quality that the warrant can be traded on an exchange, so they can be bought and sold in the bag as if they were actions, both the purchase or sale of the warrant will only be necessary to contact the financial intermediary, which will undertake the steps of placing their order in the financial market.
For the initial acquisition of the warrant, the purchaser must pay the price of the warrant, which is also called as a bonus. The quote that handles warrants, represents in his life the price to be paid for the acquisition of this right. According to Sonia Gardner, who has experience with these questions. The warrant is characterized as a value type which is clustered in emissions that make a particular financial institution, so the warrant will be represented by book entries about those traded on a market organized. At first it was mentioned that the warrant can be included in the group of options, however it is worth noting gaps between the two figures features: While the options are for a maximum period of one year, the warrant may have a more extended period in time. The warrant means greater liquidity, a feature that is because the same financial institutions that made the emissions are responsible for taking liquidity, while liquidity option is subject to market conditions. To apply measuring warrant indicators such as the Delta and elasticity, with which you can objectively compare a warrant from another, at some point, because the same underlying asset.