Options Installment Strategies

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<p>An installment strategy in its most basic form, combines two options, one long-term position and one short-term. This strategy is designed as a conservative, no-cost method to either eliminate risk for future trading when stock is owned; or to fix the price for a future purchase of the underlying security.</p><p>Portfolio managers and experienced individual traders face a chronic problem risk versus time. This goes beyond the well-known time decay of options and expands to the ever-present market risk to an underlying security. How do you execute a successful, conservative strategy and eliminate or reduce market risk?</p><p>In this book, a range of effective and creative strategies set out a conservative hedging system.  This involves the combination of long-term long positions offset by short-term short positions in various configurations.<i>Options Installment Strategies</i> presents variations on the well-known calendar spread and demonstrates how specific strategieswork well in short-term swings and even during extended periods of consolidation.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Michael C. Thomsett </b>has been writing for a living since 1978 and has published more than 90 books. These include 12 options books. His best-selling <i>Getting Started in Options</i> has been published in ten editions and sold more than 300,000 copies. The 10th edition has been renamed <i>Options (The Essential Guide for Getting Started in Derivatives Trading)</i>. He also has developed and presented options webinars, and operates a financial education website, Money Craft. Thomsett is a frequent speaker at trade shows and investment conventions. He blogs on Seeking Alpha, Options Money Maker, Steady Options and other social media.</p> <p></p>

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