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If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here.  In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but […]

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If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here.  In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but […]

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CFA® Level II Derivatives Membership, CFA® Level II Membership, CFA® Level III Membership, CFA® Level III Derivatives Membership

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If you haven’t read the article on option strategies in general, that’s a good place to start, then return here.  In particular, if you haven’t read the warning about calculating profit that appears at the end of that article, you should go read it now; the way I’m calculating the profit here is correct, but […]

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The reading on currency management briefly mentions seagull spreads, and suggests that there are two types: long seagull spreads and short seagull spreads.  Apart from the fact that there are actually four types of seagull spreads (I’ll get to them in a moment), the biggest problem is that they never show a payoff diagram for […]

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