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  2. Binary option - Wikipedia

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    A binary call option is, at long expirations, similar to a tight call spread using two vanilla options. One can model the value of a binary cash-or-nothing option, C , at strike K , as an infinitesimally tight spread, where C v {\displaystyle C_{v}} is a vanilla European call: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  3. Spread option - Wikipedia

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    In finance, a spread option is a type of option where the payoff is based on the difference in price between two underlying assets. For example, the two assets could be crude oil and heating oil; trading such an option might be of interest to oil refineries, whose profits are a function of the difference between these two prices.

  4. Bull call spread - Wikipedia

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    Often the call with the lower exercise price will be at-the-money while the call with the higher exercise price is out-of-the-money. Both calls must have the same underlying security and expiration month. If the bull call spread is done so that both the sold and bought calls expire on the same day, it is a vertical debit call spread.

  5. Black–Scholes model - Wikipedia

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    A binary call option is, at long expirations, similar to a tight call spread using two vanilla options. One can model the value of a binary cash-or-nothing option, C, at strike K, as an infinitesimally tight spread, where is a vanilla European call: [35] [36]

  6. Options strategy - Wikipedia

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    The short strikes are the same. In terms of CVAR (conditional value at risk), Butterfly is a useful strategy for 0DTEs (same day expiration contracts) because CVAR is low compared to many other strategies. [citation needed] Iron condor - the simultaneous buying of a put spread and a call spread with the same expiration and four different ...

  7. Valuation of options - Wikipedia

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    The intrinsic value is the difference between the underlying spot price and the strike price, to the extent that this is in favor of the option holder. For a call option, the option is in-the-money if the underlying spot price is higher than the strike price; then the intrinsic value is the underlying price minus the strike price.

  8. Moneyness - Wikipedia

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    The intrinsic value (or "monetary value") of an option is its value assuming it were exercised immediately. Thus if the current price of the underlying security (or commodity etc.) is above the agreed price, a call has positive intrinsic value (and is called "in the money"), while a put has zero intrinsic value (and is "out of the money").

  9. Vertical spread - Wikipedia

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    Vertical spreads can sometimes approximate binary options, and can be produced using vanilla options. Bull vertical spread - Bull call spread and bull put spread are bullish vertical spreads constructed using calls and puts respectively.