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Showing results for tags 'bearish option strategy'.
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Traders who sell index calls are betting that the market prices of the index's underlying assets will fall. The strategy involves writing a call that's linked to a stock market index. The underlying index plays the same role as an asset does in options trading. Investors settle all index options in...
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A trader who implements a put backspread strategy is betting that an asset's value will fall. The technique involves selling more put options than purchased, usually 2:1, of the same underlying asset and with the same expiration. The profit potential is infinite when carrying out a put backspread, a...
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A trader who implements a synthetic short stock (split strikes) is betting that an asset's value will fall. The technique involves buying the same number of call and put options for an underlying asset with the same expiration. Both the profit potential and the risk involved when using this strategy...
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A trader who implements a synthetic short stock strategy is betting that an asset's value will fall. The technique involves buying the same number of call and put options for an underlying asset. The profit potential and risk involved when using this strategy is unlimited. An investor who enters a s...
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Traders who implement a synthetic short call strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves short selling owned assets and selling a put option for the amount of shares owned. The loss-risk in this strategy is unlimited, if the market pri...
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Traders who implement a synthetic long put strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves short selling owned assets and selling an ATM call option, hoping that it will expire OTM. Traders who employ this type of bear option strategy pay...
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Traders who implement a protective call strategy are protecting their short sales from surprise market rallies. The protective call acts as an insurance policy from price swings on shares owed. The technique involves short selling assets and purchasing a call option for the amount of shares owned. T...
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Traders who implement an out-of-the-money naked call strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves selling an out-of-the-money call option, hoping that it will expire out-of-the money. Traders who use this type of bear option strategy do...
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Traders who implement a long put strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall significantly. The technique involves buying one or more put option. If things go wrong and the market price of the underlying asset rallies, the trader's loss-risk is limited. Unlik...
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Traders who implement an in-the-money naked call strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves selling an in-the-money call option, hoping that it will expire out-of-the money. Traders who employ this type of bear option strategy do not...
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Traders who implement covered put strategies are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves short selling owned assets and selling a put option for the same amount of shares. The loss-risk in this strategy is unlimited, if the market price of the...
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Traders who buy an index put are betting that the market prices of the index's underlying assets will fall. The strategy involves buying a put that's linked to a stock market index. The underlying index plays the same role as an asset does in options trading. Investors settle all index options in ca...
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Traders who implement a bear put spread are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves buying and selling put options for the same underlying asset. The profit potential and risk involved when using this strategy are both limited. The bear put spr...
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Traders who implement a bear call spread strategy are betting that the market price of an option's underlying asset will fall. The technique involves selling two call options, hoping that both will expire out-of-the-money. Traders who employ this type of bear option strategy do not need cash to ente...
