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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory
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To: John Pitera who wrote (18984)4/7/2017 9:49:49 PM
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The Professional Institutional option sellers are simply selling the calls and shorting the ETF's so that they are delta neutral and are indifferent to if the ETF's go up or down...

Wouldn't selling the calls and shorting the ETF be a very bad thing if the ETF went up? Both positions would lose money.

You can sell the call and buy the ETF, or buy the call and sell the ETF, but if you sell both the call and the ETF, you are just short twice. I don't see how that makes you indiffernt to the ETF going up or down.

In other words, huh?
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