When you have enough money, it's the ability to spend the rest of your life hanging out on a beach in Bermuda.
It's also the name of a position you can take in the options market. Bermuda options combine aspects of so-called American and European options (See: Atlantic Spread). Where else would Europeans and Americans choose to meet each other except Bermuda? (Rio perhaps? L.A.? Certainly not Greenland...)
In brief, a European option can be exercised only on a specific, pre-set date. Meanwhile, an American option can be exercised at any time before its set expiration. A Bermuda option has multiple potential exercise points, though they come at regular intervals.
Think of a European option as driving a car down a straight road that only goes between two points, like a remote desert highway ("cool wind in my hair/warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air"). Meanwhile, an American option is like having an all-terrain vehicle on the same highway. You can't go beyond the final destination, but you can get off the road any time, at any place ("you can check out any time you like/but you can never leave").
Now, a Bermuda option is like a driving on a highway with regular off ramps (no "Hotel California" lyrics really fit here, so we'll just say "so I called up the captain/'please bring me my wine'" just because it's fun to order wine). You can't go offroading anywhere you want, but you have choices as to when/where you leave the road.
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Finance allah shmoop what is the intrinsic value of an
option All right this is brandi She owns a twelve
dollars strike price call option toe buy a share of
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Well the stock is trading for fifteen bucks a share
of this moment Her strike price is twelve so the
intrinsic value of that option is fifteen minutes twelve or
three bucks that is it is three dollars in the
money and if brandy converted it into a share this
moment and then immediately sold the stock for fifteen dollars
in cash well she'd make three bucks But there's a
catch per call option doesn't expire for five weeks so
that three dollars in the money is actually worth more
than three dollars because she has data or time yet
to exercise and convert or just sell the option itself
So it's worth mohr because well a stock might go
up from fifteen dollars in overtime Stocks go up so
in the next five weeks well couldn't go up a
dime twenty cents twenty five cents and make that three
Dollars worth three ten three twenty three Twenty five Sure
sure it could happen So yeah that's The difference between
actual value and intrinsic value You get seita kickers in
there making the option's worth more than just converting them
into stock and selling them right there And yeah it
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