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Here are twelve powerful options trading strategies every option trader should understand how to execute. Links included in the option play names to articles explaining each strategy with graphics. Bull Call Spread Bull Put Spread Poor Man’s’ Covered Call Synthetic Shares Bear Call Spread Bear Put Spread Jade Lizard Married Put Long & Short Straddles
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What are covered puts? A covered put is created when put options are sold that correlates with a short stock position already being held or opened as a sell/write at one time. The stock position acts as a hedge for the short puts to limit losses as the short shares can be used if the
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How to calculate an option price A Black-Scholes Calculator can be used to figure the price (fair market value) of a put or call option contract based on the Black-Scholes pricing model. It also calculates and plots the Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, Rho. Enter your own values through the website in the link below
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Instead of searching for an options play structure every time you come across a potential option trade you want to make you can now simply refer to the below guides created by Gavin McMaster at OptionsTradingIQ.com you can also following Gav on Twitter at @OptionTradinIQ. Options traders at all trading levels can find having these
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Buy to open versus buy to close in options trading are very different processes that many stock traders don’t understand. A buy to open order in options trading is when a call or put contract is bought and entered as a long position. The term comes mostly from the fact that when the option seller
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Option contracts are different than stock shares in the way they are created, traded, and closed. There are two different types of selling in options trading: sell to open vs sell to close. An options trader will sell to open a new option contract that they want to be short. This is also called writing
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A synthetic share of a stock is created by buying and selling stock options to simulate an options play that moves the same way that holding shares in the stock would move without the same amount of capital needed to buy the same amount of shares. A synthetic long stock position is created by buying
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A diagonal spread options play is a modified calendar spread that is built with different strike prices. It is opened by entering into a long and short position in two options of the same type at the same time. An option trader can use two call options or two put options but they must have
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This is a guest post from Gavin McMaster @OptiontradinIQ Searching for income has become a challenge. Bonds have been a traditional conservative income stream for decades. Yet, bond yields are now trading at historic lows. This has led some investors and advisors to jump into lower credit “junk” bonds simply to generate any income –
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