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

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Straddles and strangles are slightly more complicated strategies than trading delta – but still among ways to start using the potential of options trading. Like most other options strategies, both ...

A few months ago, we explored trying to smooth out performance of consistently shorting straddles with a buying dated long straddle using NDX options. We found that a consistent strategy selling NDX 3 ...