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A short straddle is an advanced options strategy used when a trader is seeking to profit from an underlying stock trading in a narrow range. To execute the strategy, a trader would sell a call and a ...

A strangle is a popular options strategy that involves holding both a call and a put on the same underlying asset. It yields ...

Headlines abound about the stock market’s turnaround since it bottomed out in March. This presumably reflects the end of the worst recession since the Great Depression — and a Cinderella-like return ...

The straddle is an options trading strategy, so named for the shape it makes on a pricing chart; your position literally “straddles” the price of the underlying asset. With the straddle, you trade on ...

One investor apparently believes that VeriFone Systems is destined to spend the next eight months trapped in a range. optionMONSTER's monitoring systems detected the sale of 3,000 October 50 calls for ...

A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...