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short straddle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English

Syllables
short- strad-dle
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An investment position in a futures deal, where the trader places a call order and a put order at the same time on the same item, in hopes of the item remaining at the same price when the order expires, neither falling nor rising, straddling the divide, so as to reap the premiums of the unexercised call and put.

Inflected Forms

short straddles (plural)

Questions

What does short straddle mean?
An investment position in a futures deal, where the trader places a call order and a put order at the same time on the same item, in hopes of the item remaining at the same price when the order expires, neither falling nor rising, straddling the divide, so as to reap the premiums of the unexercised call and put.

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