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Strategies & Market Trends : Option Spreads, Credit my Debit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NateC who wrote (523)	2/14/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: dealmakr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2317

Nate, Credit spreads Debit spreads Backspreads Ratio spreads Straddles Strangles Butterflies The Notorious Brooklyn put Gambit Your going to make me go back to my books to bone up on some of this stuff again<G>. Well its fun anyway. Hopefully profitable too. Dave

To: NateC who wrote (523)	2/14/1999 8:17:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Respond to of 2317

Butterfly, Straddle, Strangle Condor or whatever. Any spread approach is fine and the more variety in spreads selected the better. This will allow us to observe the real-life behavior of these spreads over time vs. the theoretical discussions which don't capture a lot of the "real life" issues like margin and bid/ask differences. I would just prefer not using long or short positions in the underlying to any great extent since since that defeats the purpose of many of the great spreads. However, a small position in the underlying to balance delta or whatever is OK.