Chapter 5. Advanced option strategies

Entire books have been written about options. Many of them get too precise for practical real-world trading, covering such academics as complex butterfly spreads and other strategies that might look good on paper but in practice are seldom useful. Here, and in the following chapter, I cover the basic strategies I feel are worth your consideration.

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