James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Calendar spreads are a versatile options strategy that allows traders to capitalize on time decay and changes in implied ...

This options strategy focuses on the most valuable commodity: time. Most investors think in terms of choosing companies that will rise in value over the long run. Yet some options strategies are ...

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The long call calendar spread is engineered to allow you to profit from fluctuations in time value. A so-called horizontal spread, the trade involves the sale of a shorter-term call and the ...

The long put calendar spread is a strategy designed to profit from a near-total coma in the underlying shares. Employing two different put options spread across two calendar months -- with a single ...

Calendar spreads are an option trade that involves selling a short-term option and buying a longer-term option with the same strike. Traders can use calls or puts and they can be set up to be neutral, ...

Calendar spreads are an option trade that involves selling a short-term option and buying a longer-term option with the same strike. Traders can use calls or puts and they can be set up to be neutral, ...

I would like to continue my discussion of spreading time by describing diagonal calendar spread options. This spread, unlike the horizontal calendar spread, uses different strikes. It is a slightly ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. In this post I will be writing about an option strategy known as the Calendar Call Spread Option Strategy. To ...

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