Question To Be Answered: Can You Sell A Call Option Before It Hits The Strike Price?
Can You Sell A Call Option Before It Hits The Strike Price?
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Volatility Skewness | IV Skew In Options
Volatility skewness, or just skew, describes the difference between observed implied volatility with in-the-money, out-of-the-money, and at-the-money options with the same expiry date and underlying. It occurs due to market ...
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Protective Put: This Defensive Put Option Strategy Explained
How Can The Protective Put Strategy Help A Trader? Introduction To Protective Puts The protective put (sometimes called a married put) strategy is one of the simplest, but most, popular, ...
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Options Trading Strategy: Bear Put Spread
Introduction Options can be an extremely useful tool for short-term traders as well as long-term investors. Options can provide investors with a vehicle to bet on market direction or volatility, ...
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Put Call Parity
Put Call Parity Introduction Options trading can be relatively simple and can also become highly technical. One of the most important basic concepts when it comes to trading options is ...
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Options Spreads: Put & Call Combination Strategies
Options Combinations Explained Options spreads involve the purchase or sale of two or more options covering the same underlying stock or security (ref). These options can be puts or calls ...
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In The Money (ITM) Options Explained
In the money options are those whose strike price is less (for call options) or more (for put options) than the current underlying security price. Options provide the right to ...
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Options Rho: Sensitivity To Interest Rates
Rho is the sensitivity of an options's price to changes in interest rates. It is usually only worth considering for long dated options such as LEAPS. Rho is the least ...
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Buy to Open vs Buy to Close
What is Buy to Open vs Buy to Close? We look at these two similar, but not exactly the same, concepts. There are two ways you can participate in the ...
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Options Trading Strategy: Butterfly Spread
Introduction To Butterfly Spreads Options can provide traders and investors a tool for expressing different market opinions. Options can be used to make trades based on market direction, to bet ...
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Options Trading Strategy: Long Call
A long call option strategy is the purchase of a call option in the expectation of the underlying stock rising. It is delta and theta positive. Introduction Options can provide ...
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Strangle Spread: A Guide To This Options Trading Strategy
The Strangle Spread Options Trading Strategy Introduction Options, and combination trades such as the strangle spread, can be a very useful tool for both novice and seasoned traders and investors ...
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How Options Work: Trading Put And Call Options
Learning how options work is a key skill for any trader or investor wanting to add this to their arsenal of trading weapons. It’s really not possible to trade options ...
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Calendar Spread
The Calendar Spreads Options Strategy What is a Calendar Spread? Intro Calendar Spreads are one of the key non-directional strategies used by options traders to make money in any market ...
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Zero Cost (Costless) Collar Explained
What Is A Zero Cost Collar? A costless, or zero cost, collar is an options spread involving the purchase of a protective put on an existing stock position, funded by ...
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Options Vega Explained: Price Sensitivity To Volatility
Options Vega is the measure of an option’s price sensitivity to changes in volatility. It is the expected change in options price with a 1 point change in implied volatility ...
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