Roll Back

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Roll Back

To sell an option position and buy another with the same underlying asset and strike price, but with an earlier expiration date. One may also call this rolling backward.

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Taft-Hartley Act
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982
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The "roller" rolls backward because of the following sequence: As the container moves forward, the rubber band untwists, Some of the stored energy gets converted into energy of motion.

Hands-on science (no lab required)

The first girl rolls backward, and the sleek ribbon of bodies glides under itself and along the 40-foot length of the pool before the swimmers resurface one by one.

SUMMER MAGIC BECOMES ROUTINE

There they are so crowded that Malton's chair rolls backward along the wall right up to the ceiling, where it remains.