(finance) One of a variety of strategies involving two or more options (or options combined with a position in the underlying stock) that can potentially profit from a fall in the price of the underlying stock.
(business, historical, economics, finance) March 12, 2020, as part of the 2020 stock market crash; the day on which United States stock markets saw their biggest single-day percentage drop since 1987.
(finance, of an option) That can be exercised on quarterly dates, a set time period (usually one year) after the issue date, and before the expiry date.
(finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
A stock in a failing company whose price per share is inappropriately high because the company used to be a market leader or previously had a well-known popular product.
(stock market) A type of stock market or financial derivative order, signifying that the order is to be presented for execution, and if not executed ("filled") immediately (traditionally within a few seconds) is to be cancelled.
(finance) An options position consisting of two calls and two puts, which can be seen as a combination of synthetic long and short positions with different expiries, or a combination of a put time spread and a call time spread.
Alternative spelling of stop loss order [(stock market) A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops (or rises in some cases) to a specified price level.]
(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
(finance) A bullish options strategy that is established by buying a two calls and one put option with the same exercise price. The trader is betting on volatility.
(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
(finance) A bearish options strategy that is established by buying a two puts and one call option with the same exercise price. The trader is betting on volatility.
(finance) Simultaneous expiry on US markets of stock index futures, stock index options, and stock options, which took place on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December. (With the introduction of single stock futures those days are now quadruple witching.)
(finance, of an option) That can be exercised on dates less-frequently than quarterly (usually annually), a set time period (usually one year) after the issue date, and before the expiry date.
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