Additionally, the Company acquired put
option spread contracts on 160,000 MMBtu per day for 2012 with a floor price of $4.
The Fund pursues its objective by writing a series of call and put
option spread combinations on the S&P 500 Composite Stock Price Index, a broad-based U.
Although less expensive than buying a standalone index put option, buying a put
option spread will expose the Fund to incremental loss if the value of the index at contract expiration is below the exercise price of the put option sold.
HOUSTON, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Plains Exploration & Production Company (NYSE: PXP) ("PXP" or the "Company") today announced it has acquired crude oil put
option spread contracts on 31,000 barrels of oil per day in 2011 and 40,000 barrels of oil per day in 2012.
In a put
option spread, the Fund writes index put options in combination with the purchase of index put options at a higher exercise price.
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CHICAGO -- Equity options spreads, in which multiple trades are used to execute a single strategy, have long been widely used by almost all professional traders to better manage their risk and reward (see
Option Spread Example, below).
In most respects, a capped index option is the equivalent of a vertical index
option spread (a position created by the purchase of one option and the sale of a second option on the same underlying index with the same expiration).
5 percent to 5 percent Russell 2000 Index put
option spread; and 3) sells a monthly out-of-the-money (OTM) Russell 2000 Index call option to cover the cost of the put
option spread.
Option spread strategies; trading up, down, and sideways markets.
