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Strangles: Don Kaufman explains a popular options strategy in Business Insider

What is a strangle?

If you’re expecting a large move in the market but don’t know which direction it’s headed, you may want to strangle it, explains TheoTrade co-founder Don Kaufman in this Business Insider story. Don discusses how a strangle works, and when it could be advantageous to consider this options strategy.

For more detail, see the Business Insider story: Strangle options: An investment strategy that plays both ends against the middle

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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