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To: RocketMan who wrote (6769)4/20/2000 8:43:00 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze  Read Replies (1) of 8096
 
So, not only directed at you RM, but some questions...

If one is bullish, buying calls and selling puts are one's most basic choices, selling puts having the added advantage of time decay in one's favor. One can be a little bit wrong and still make money, whereas when one buys calls, time works against you.

Conversely if one is bearish on a stock (or the market...) one can buy puts or write calls. The second would have the same advantage, time works in one's favor. Of course if the stock goes way down what protection does one have? Should one short a call and buy a put, the opposite of a synthetic long? A synthetic short???

just wondering...
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