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

Thus, the iron condor is an options strategy considered when the trader has a neutral outlook for the market.

A long butterfly options strategy consists of the following options:

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

An options strategy allows you to operate with less risk, and rewards you with the potential of regular income.

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.

The Improved Transportation Options strategy accounts for 23 percent of Chicago's total greenhouse gas reductions.

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.

An I.R.S. spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because most of these issues are still under study, said that the agency had ruled only against the options strategy.

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.

In options trading, a bull spread is a bullish, vertical spread options strategy that is designed to profit from a moderate rise in the price of the underlying security.

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.

In options trading, a bear spread is a bearish, vertical spread options strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security.

In options trading, a vertical spread is an options strategy involving buying and selling of multiple options of the same underlying security, same expiration date, but at different strike prices.

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.

DR. CHARLES ALLEN, a physician in Palm Springs, Calif., has been using an options strategy called overwriting for about two years.

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.