Many options strategies are built around spreads and combinations of spreads.

Instead, he relied on evenhanded options strategies to generate consistent returns that had little to do with the Internet stock bubble.

Options strategies allow to profit from movements in the underlying that are bullish, bearish or neutral.

November 2007: Launch of 3- and 4-legged complex options strategies and an options analytics suite.

Bullish options strategies are employed when the options trader expects the underlying stock price to move upwards.

The company also hosts free in-depth live events that provide education on options strategies and trade execution tailored to beginner, intermediate and advanced investors.

February 2007: Addition of IRA account types and addition of 2-legged complex options strategies.

Mildly bullish trading strategies are options strategies that make money as long as the underlying stock price does not go down by the option's expiration date.

Mr. Brooks flew to Chicago to explain to the senior Jenkens tax lawyer, Paul Daugerdas, complex options strategies that Deutsche Bank had developed.

It is one of the riskiest options strategies because it carries unlimited risk as opposed to a naked put where the maximum loss occurs if the stock falls to zero.

It is from here that the company does everything from making futures purchases on behalf of customers to devising options strategies that will guard against, or even capitalize on, market turbulence.

Such moves amount to "a down payment on our future," said Edward A. Greene, founder of E.G. Capital, a Stamford, Conn., firm that specializes in options strategies.

The repeal of that provision frees mutual funds to use complicated options strategies - strategies that can reduce the risk of the fund, or strategies that can multiply the risks being taken.

A comprehensive list of binary options strategies would include European and American binary options, 'knock-in' binary options, 'knock-out' binary options and two-asset binary options.

Harry Snyder, director of options strategies of Herzog Heine Geduld Inc., a stock brokerage concern, died of cancer of the liver Sunday at his home in Hartsdale, N.Y.

Hedged investors are those who will Buy or Sell the convertible bond, and take the opposite position in the common stock, a CDS contract, and potentially being combined with one of many options strategies.

Combining any of the four basic kinds of option trades (possibly with different exercise prices and maturities) and the two basic kinds of stock trades (long and short) allows a variety of options strategies.

"People write about all sorts of what they say are new strategies on options trades, but there is almost nothing written today about options strategies that Harry didn't write about in the early 70's," Mr. Jacobson said.

Waller has fulfilled many roles at BigTrends from 2008 to the present, including Portfolio Manager (Advanced Options Strategies, Index Options, ETF Options), Director of Editorial, and Trading Coach/Webinar Presenter.

"When the market's down this heavily, you would really expect the small caps to do much better," said Lawrence G. McMillan, president of the McMillan Analysis Corporation, a Morristown, N.J., investment firm that specializes in futures and options strategies.

The binary options market at present is in the same 'no-mans-land' where there is a vibrant FX binary options market with sophisticated binary options strategies, while at the other extreme there are a plethora of platforms offering one-hour bets dressing themselves up as 'investments'.