A covered straddle is the combination of a covered call (long stock plus short call) and a short put. Limited Profit. Der Short Straddle birgt im Gegensatz zum Long Straddle ein unbegrenztes Verlustrisiko. Now, what if a short strangle and long stock fell in love and had a baby? Short strangles are credit spreads as a net credit is taken to enter the trade. Maximum profit for the short strangle occurs when the underlying stock price on expiration date is trading between the strike prices of the options sold. The concept is to increase the yield of the Covered Call by selling an OTM (lower strike) put. You buy 100 shares, you put aside enough cash for another 100 shares. Covered Strangle (Covered Combination) This strategy is appropriate for a stock considered to be fairly valued. Maybe there is a name for this already. Adjusted according to your risk tolerance. Here’s how I would think about the first. Rather, the long stock position, or account equity, is used as collateral to meet the margin requirement for the short put. Description The Covered Short Strangle is another risky income strategy, though it is certainly an improvement on the Covered Short Straddle. The short put is not “covered” as the strategy name implies, however, because cash is not held in reserve to buy shares if the put is assigned. This is a combination of the covered call and cash-secured put strategies. I've been having luck the last few weeks with this strategy, it's a mix of short strangle and covered short strangle. We are looking to generate monthly cash flow while at the same time positioning ourselves to buy a stock at a “discount” should the share price expire below the put strike. You sell something like 28 and a 26 delta Call and sell a 25 and a 23 delta Put. We can follow either combination when wrapping our head around the covered strangle strategy. It would also be a covered strangle. 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