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an option is just a contract between 2 parties. The full name is actually "option contract"

ANY 2 parties can enter into a contract. We can trade options because each party to the contract gains some potential economic value in being a party to the option contract...so other parties who want to gain the same exposure can either enter into new contracts...or they can "take out an existing party to a contract and replace them".

With Listed Options, the central clearing house is always your direct counterparty, but the clearing house really just act as an intermediary between the long and short. The initial "seller" of an option contract is the one who creates the contract...but the seller needs a buyer for the contract to actually come into existence.

You can write a contract on a piece of paper...but until somebody else agrees to enter into that contract with you...all you really have is a worthless piece of paper.

 

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