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The most bearish of options trading strategies is the simple put buying or selling strategy utilized by most options traders. The market can make steep downward moves. Moderately bearish options traders usually set a target price for the expected decline and utilize bear spreads to reduce cost.
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The iron condor is an advanced options strategy that combines a bear call spread (strategy No. 3) and a bull put spread (strategy No. 4). So it involves four separate legs, making it a complex ...
In this option trading strategy, the trader buys a call — referred to as “going long” a call — and expects the stock price to exceed the strike price by expiration.
As with most successful arbitrage strategies, convertible arbitrage has attracted a large number of market participants, creating intense competition and reducing the effectiveness of the strategy. For example, many convertible arbitrageurs suffered losses in early 2005 when the credit of General Motors was downgraded at the same time Kirk ...
The trader will then receive the net credit of entering the trade when the options all expire worthless. [2] A short iron butterfly option strategy consists of the following options: Long one out-of-the-money put: strike price of X − a; Short one at-the-money put: strike price of X; Short one at-the-money call: strike price of X
Below $19.50, the value of the option strategy increases by $100 for every dollar the stock decreases — down to $16 per share. At a stock price of $16 and below, the profitability of the trade ...
The "straight" ratio-spread describes this strategy if the trader buys and writes (sells) options having the same expiration. If, instead, the trader executes this strategy by buying options having expiration in one month but writing (selling) options having expiration in a different month, this is known as a ratio-diagonal trade.