The relationship between the exercise or strike price of your options and the current market price of the stock determines much of the value of the options. If the stock price is above the option strike price, the option is in-the-money..
Old fashioned pickle recipes tend to include alum as a key ingredient. Alum is a chemical compound most commonly found in the form of potassium aluminum sulfate. Alum is added to pickles to create the classic crispness and crunch of a good dill pickle.
Potassium alum is the common alum of commerce, although both soda alum and ammonium alum are manufactured. 1  Shaving alum is a powdered form of alum used as an astringent to prevent bleeding from small shaving cuts.2  The styptic pencils sold for this purpose contain aluminium sulfate or potassium aluminium sulfate. Typically potassium alum is used. 2  Water treatment-Alum (aluminium sulfate) is used in water treatment. 3  The addition of alum to raw water causes small particles and colloids to stick together and form heavier particles (floc) which will settle in water.