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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Horizontal spreads are closely related to vertical spreads. The technique always involves trading at the same moment options of (nearly) the same type. Nevertheless, while the vertical spreads are trading options with the same expiration date, the horizontal spreads keep the same strikes.
This, on the other hand, means that horizontal ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
I am reading a book by Charles Cattle (2006) called "Options Trading: The Hidden Reality". It is a nice introduction into the art of synthetics - which is basically the study of alternatives and relations between different configurations of portfolios that involve options.
The idea is to find equivalent alternatives to ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Since its first day online the straddle calculator has attracted dozens of thousands of people willing to learn about the straddle and the strangle strategies. The overwhelming response persuaded me to give this site a whole new purpose. As you may observe - now this is a blog.
The online calculator ...
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