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Yield spreadThe difference in yield between different security issues usually securities of different credit quality.Yield spread Similar MatchesPut spreadPut spreadThe simultaneous purchase (sale) of a put at one exercise price and the sale (purchase) of a put at a lower exercise price. Diagonal spreadDiagonal spreadAn options strategy requiring a long and a short position in the same class of option at different strike prices and different expiration dates. For example, two puts or two calls in the same stock. See: Calendar spread; vertical spread. Box spreadBox spreadA type of option arbitrage in which both a bull spread and a bear spread are established for a near-riskless position. One spread is established using put options and the other is established using calls. The spread may both be debit spreads (call bull spread vs. put bear spread) or both credit spreads (call bear spread vs. put bull spread). Break-Even Point--the stock price (or prices) at which a particular strategy neither makes nor loses money. It generally pertains to the result at the expiration date of the options involved in the strategy. A "dynamic" break-even point is one that changes as time passes. Alligator spreadAlligator spreadThe term used to describe a spread in the options market that generates such a large commission that the client is unlikely to make a profit even if the markets move as the investor anticipated. Option spreadOption spreadThe trading of options of the same class at the same time in order to profit from changes in the size of the spread between different options. Further Suggestionscrack spreadTED spread Butterfly spread Vertical spread Generic credit spread Dealers spread Interdelivery spread bid/offer spread Perpendicular spread Time spread strategy ratio spread Spread income Mob spread Spread option Yield spread strategies Intramarket sector spread diagonal spread bull spread Intercommodity spread Calendar spread Spreadsheet Relative yield spread Ratio Spread condor spread Put ratio backspread |
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