12 docs tagged with "spreads"

Explore advanced spread configurations like ratio spreads and backspreads to create unique risk/reward profiles.

Discover the world of options spreads, where you can combine long and short options to create defined-risk strategies with higher probabilities of success.

A step-by-step walkthrough of a real-world vertical spread trade, from initial analysis to final profit.

A detailed comparison of debit and credit spreads, exploring their unique characteristics, risk profiles, and the ideal market conditions for each.

Learn the essential skills of trade management, including when to take profits, how to cut losses, and when to adjust a spread position.

A deep dive into the art and science of selecting the right strike prices for your vertical spreads to balance risk, reward, and probability.

Learn to trade the bear call spread, a credit spread strategy that profits from a falling or sideways market with a high probability of success.

Learn how to construct a bear put spread, a powerful, cost-effective strategy for expressing a moderately bearish view with limited risk.

Learn how to construct a bull call spread, a powerful, cost-effective strategy for expressing a moderately bullish view with limited risk.

Discover the bull put spread, a credit spread strategy that profits from a rising or sideways market with a high probability of success.

Understand how implied volatility (IV) affects your spread positions and learn to use it to your strategic advantage.

Learn how to analyze the risk-to-reward ratio of your spread trades to make smarter, more consistent trading decisions.