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Option Trading - Straddles - Delta Neutral Strategies 1 Citation The great thing about a straddle is that it?s non-directional. This means that you can make money without forecasting market direction. In other words, it doesn?t matter whether the stock price goes up or down in the near future - you can still make money either way - as long as it moves somewhere.The idea behind a straddle is that you simultaneously purchase the same number of call and a put options, with the same expiry date. The plan is, that the profit from the winning option will more than, technorati.com
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1 Citation After writing yesterday?s post , I realized that my earnings trade for today should be fixed. So I turned the trade around. The key thing is that I made it into a long straddle waiting for earnings to come out after the close yesterday. Here is the chart that shows the result: Date 2/25/2009 2/26/2009 Stock FLS 46 54 45 call 4.1 , technorati.com
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1 Citation Scottrade will only let me do one put or one call per stock symbol. The problem is that I want to play the Nasdaq in a straddle and to do that I need to play two different stock symbols representing the Nasdaq. I want to play QQQQ and NDAQ with a put option on one, , technorati.com
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