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 soda alum, ferric alum, and ammonium alum are manufactured. Alum has been used at least since Roman times for purification of drinking water and industrial process water.