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Calendar Spread
An options or futures spread established by simultaneously entering a long and short position on the same underlying asset but with different delivery months. Sometimes referred to as an inter-delivery, time or horizontal spread.

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An example of a calendar spread would be going long on a crude oil futures contract with delivery next month and going short on a crude oil futures contract whose delivery is in six months.

Calendar spread
Applies to derivative products. A strategy in which there is a simultaneous purchase and sale of options of the same class at the same strike prices, but with different expiration date.
calendar spread
In options and futures trading, the purchase of one contract and the sale of another contract that differs from the first only by its delivery or expiration date. An example of calendar spread would be the purchase of a December call with a strike price of $20 and the sale of a June call with the same strike price. An investor would use a calendar spread in order to profit from a change in the price difference as the securities move closer to maturity. Also called horizontal spread, time spread.


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As a refresher, a calendar spread is where an investor will sell a short-term call (or put) and then buy a longer-term call (or put) at the same strike.
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A calendar spread could be in the works; this would assume that the investor is selling the March position and purchasing the April call.
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This are likely matched with similar trades at the March 25 call strike (PFE CE), as halves of a calendar spread.
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