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For Robert: Thanks Robert. My plan is to trade options after the stock makes a move, and thus hedge with the put if bullish but with less cost than buying same strike as the call. For Lawrence: Yes. You are right. But I was wondering if there are any traders that deals with such setups, and...

Hello All. I have a question regarding straddles setups. In general straddles are supposed to be set at ATM strikes for same contract quantity for calls and puts with same expiry months. How about setting a straddle when expecting a sharp bullish move with buying ITM calls and slightly OTM puts...

Hello everybody. The question is how do foreign indexes ETFs (US markets) follow their respective indexes in their regions. For example, since Europe markets open and start trading before US markets, and if let us say Euro Stoxx 50 has dropped during the day, does that mean that when US markets...

Hello Everybody: I have a question regarding Option quotes. Why is it that when the price of the underlying is moving up, some call prices decrease and some put prices increase. Shouldn't all calls appreciate in value when the stock price is moving up? why some of them are moving in the...