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Straddle Option

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With volatility low buying a straddle option in the SPY is one way to play an expected increase in volatility. Tonight let’s review a few trades that have turned profitable for us. Also, we are going to set up a trade that you have heard about called buying gamma. A straddle option is one way to buy gamma. Let’s take a look at the trade.

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Don Kaufman

Don Kaufman is options trader and educator. Former CBOE market maker, former Chief Derivatives Instructor at thinkorswim, and former Director of the Trader Group at TD Ameritrade. In 2015 he co-founded TheoTrade to teach traders how volatility, probability, and risk really work.

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