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2. Ratio spread - Wikipedia

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   A Ratio spread is a, multi-leg options position. Like a vertical, the ratio spread involves buying and selling options on the same underlying security with different strike prices and the same expiration date. In this spread, the number of option contracts sold is not equal to a number of contracts bought. An unequal number of options contracts ...

3. LEAPS (finance) - Wikipedia

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   LEAPS (finance) In finance, Long-term Equity AnticiPation Securities ( LEAPS) are derivatives that track the price of an underlying financial instrument (stocks or indices). They are option contracts with a much longer time to expiry than standard options. According to the Options Industry Council, the educational arm of the Options Clearing ...

4. Margrabe's formula - Wikipedia

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   Margrabe's formula. In mathematical finance, Margrabe's formula [1] is an option pricing formula applicable to an option to exchange one risky asset for another risky asset at maturity. It was derived by William Margrabe (PhD Chicago) in 1978. Margrabe's paper has been cited by over 2000 subsequent articles.

5. Iron condor - Wikipedia

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   The iron condor is an options trading strategy utilizing two vertical spreads – a put spread and a call spread with the same expiration and four different strikes. A long iron condor is essentially selling both sides of the underlying instrument by simultaneously shorting the same number of calls and puts, then covering each position with the purchase of further out of the money call(s) and ...

6. Bond option - Wikipedia

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   An American bond option is an option to buy or sell a bond on or before a certain date in future for a predetermined price. Generally, one buys a call option on the bond if one believes that interest rates will fall, causing an increase in bond prices. Likewise, one buys the put option if one believes that interest rates will rise. [1]

7. Put/call ratio - Wikipedia

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   Put/call ratio. In finance the put/call ratio (or put-call ratio, PCR) is a technical indicator demonstrating investor sentiment. [1] The ratio represents a proportion between all the put options and all the call options purchased on any given day. The put/call ratio can be calculated for any individual stock, as well as for any index, or can ...