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Advisors Option: Straddles & Strangles

Feb 27, 2014

Options 101: Straddles & Strangles

  • Straddle: Buy/sell a call and put on the same strike.
  • Long straddles. But be careful of high decay. Flip that around and you have a short straddle.
  • Strangles allow you to benefit from significant underlying with smaller premium outlay compares to straddles. High decay still exist....

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