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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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 option Greeks – delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho – refer to sensitivities of the price of an option to various underlying variables.  Here, we’ll be talking about options on stocks, though the discussion would be equally appropriate for options on, say, commodities.  It would not be appropriate for a discussion of options on […]

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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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There are two applications of delta hedging presented in the CFA curriculum: You have an existing position in the underlying security and you want to hedge that position with options. You have an existing position in options and you want to hedge that position either with the underlying security or with options. I’ll cover both […]

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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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