Options strategy that involves buying and selling the same number of options contracts with the same exercise price but with different maturity dates; also called calendar spread.
Spreads between options with the same exercise price but different expiration dates. Also known as calendar or time spreads.
An options strategy where the options have the same strike and different expiration dates.
Is a spread which is composed of two puts or two calls on the same underlying instrument. It is called horizontal because both options have the same strike or exercise price but two different expiration dates. Generally, the trade is placed with the nearby option sold and the deferred option purchased. This is an attempt to capitalize on the acceleration in time value decay for the nearby relative to the deferred contract month.
Options strategy--also known as a "calendar spread"--that includes buying and selling the same number of options contracts with the same exercise price, but with maturity dates that are different. The investor hopes to profit by price moves in the underlying security. See: Calendar Spread; Exercise Price; Maturity Date; Options
An option strategy in which the options have the same striking price, but different expiration dates.
See: Calendar Spread. HOT ISSUE: When a new stock issue trades at an immediate premium (secondary market price on the effective date is above the new issue offering price). Purchase of shares of a hot issue by employees of brokerage firms, their immediate families, and other individuals is either prohibited or restricted.
An option spread where one option is purchased and a different option is sold. The sold option has the same strike price but a different expiry date from the purchased option. The spread will be constructed with either all calls or all puts on the same underlying asset. This spread is sometimes known as a Time Spread or a Calendar Spread.
The simultaneous purchase and sale of two options that differ only in their exercise dates.
An options strategy involving the simultaneous purchase and sale of two options of the same type, having the same strike price, but different expiration dates.
The purchase of either a call or put option and the simultaneous sale of the same type of option with typically the same strike price but with a different expiration month. also referred to as a calendar spread.
An option spread involving the simultaneous purchase and sale of options of the same class and strike prices but different expiration dates. See Diagonal Spread, Vertical Spread.
