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Flexible Exchange-Traded Option

An exchange-traded (though customizable) option that allows the parties to specify the strike price and expiration date according to their…

Forced Liquidation

The action which is taken by a brokerage firm whereby open positions are offset to liquidate a customer’s account after…

Short Call Diagonal Calendar Spread

A call diagonal calendar spread that is designed to profit when the underlying breaks out in either direction. The profit…

Short Call Ladder

A vertical spread strategy which benefits from both high and low volatilities. However, the strategy is naturally bullish. In essence,…

Short Call Spread

An option trading strategy that is constructed by selling a call option at a given strike price and buying a…

Cash-or-Nothing Put

A type of option in which the payoff is determined in one of two distinct values: a specified fixed price…

Calendar Effect

A securities market seasonal phenomenon wherein the stocks tend to perform differently at different times of a calendar year. More…

Call Iron Condor

An iron condor, generally, involves buying or selling four options at four different exercise prices. When an investor buys the calls…

Long Calendar Strangle

A calendar strangle that is designed to profit as the underlying is believed to stay stagnant over a specific period…

Live-Out Option

A variation on a knock-out option (KO option) which is very deep in-the-money when it knocks out. A knock-out option...