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This is a strategy for trading options that has worked well for us in the past, and we expect this method to continue generating quick profits for us in the future. This strategy will use butterfly spreads to make money in the last week before options expiration. The downside to this particular strategy is that we can only use it at a certain time of each month.
Stock shorting is a high risk trading strategy used by sophisticated investors who believe that the value of a company's stock is going to fall, and they want to profit when it does. The act of shorting is selling share of a stock that you do not own, in anticipation of the stock value dropping so you can buy it back at a later date…for less money than you sold it. In other words, you’re trying to buy low and sell high, but in reverse.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced that as of Thursday, July 1, all new Weekly options series listed at CBOE will begin trading on Thursdays and expire the following Friday. Prior to this change, new series were listed on Fridays. The additional day will expand market participants' ability to roll trades from one Weekly expiration to the next Weekly expiration.
Weekly options, first introduced by CBOE in 2005, are one-week options that expire at the end of a week unless an options expiration already exists. Except for the expiration date, Weeklys generally have the same contract specifications and offer the same continuous, two-sided quotes as standard options.
CME Group today announced the launch of intercommodity options on corn/wheat futures spreads scheduled to begin trading on July 25, 2010. These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of the CBOT.
The new listing, which will be available on CME Globex and in open outcry, will enable market participants to trade options on corn/wheat intercommodity futures spreads. The two commodities are closely linked by market fundamentals such as available planting acreage, demand for feed and the impact of weather.