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By: Maximo Cortese Options and their strategies offer many tools to the general investor, but all of the technical jargon can become overwhelming. Let’s look at two of the more helpful strategies, long and short strangles, and break them down for easier consumption. Long Strangles Just like...

Options Outlook wrap up for this week is to not get run over by range bound trading. There was a first attempt by the shorts to push for a downside movement after almost the longest bull run in history, with a move from 168 to 164 via the SPY. This gave outright put buyers a chance to really make...