A long straddle is an options strategy that involves buying at-the-money puts and calls for the same security with the same expiration date in hopes of profiting off of expected price volatility ...

Options allow traders to profit with basic or advanced strategies, based on calls and puts, but are not risk-free, exposing ...

To initiate a long straddle, you will simultaneously buy to open a call option and a put option on the same underlying stock. Both options will have the same strike price and the same expiration date.

Investopedia / Matthew Collins A more sophisticated options ... beyond either long put or long call strike One spread is fully in-the-money Max loss The iron condor strategy is risk-neutral.

In this example, you can eke out a profit as long as the ... involved with a short straddle, which is why these premium-selling strategies are reserved for experienced option traders with margin ...

or the strike price of the long call plus the net cost of the bull call spread. Above $20, the value of the option strategy increases by $100 for every dollar the stock increases — up to $24 per ...