Category: Calendar Spreads

Calendar Spread Breakeven Points – Where is it Exactly?

Calendar Spread Breakeven Points is actually Not straightforward to calculate and to be honest not worth racking your brain finding out by hand.

Long Diagonal Put Spread [Strategy Overview]

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Strategy: Sell OTM nearest month (usually 30day) put options contract + Buy ATM further month put options contract (ratio of 1 to 1) Number of legs: 2 Market Prognosis = Sideways + Bearish (Down-Market)

Long OTM Put Calendar [Strategy Overview]

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Strategy: Sell OTM 30 days put options contract + Buy OTM further month to expire put options contract (ratio of 1 to 1) Number of legs: 2 Market Prognosis = Bearish (Down-Market)

Long OTM Call Calendar [Strategy Overview]

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Strategy: Sell OTM 30 days put options contract + Buy OTM further month to expire put options contract (ratio of 1 to 1) Number of legs: 2 Market Prognosis = Bullish (Up-Market)

Long Synthetic Calendar [Strategy Overview]

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Strategy: Sell ATM 30 days call options contract + Buy ATM further month to expire put options contract + Buy Stock (ratio of 1 to 1 to 100) Number of legs: 3 Market Prognosis = Range-bound or Sideways (stock going nowhere)

Long Put Calendar – A Strategy Overview

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Strategy: Sell ATM 30 days put options contract + Buy ATM further month to expire put options contract (ratio of 1 to 1) Number of legs: 2 Market Prognosis = Range-bound or Sideways (stock going nowhere)

Bearish Ratio Calendar Spread and How to trade this time spread directional with a little twist

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As a quick refresher, or if you haven’t read my previous article, calendar spread is basically a strategy to make money from a sideway market. In other words, even if market

Calendar Spread and 9 Must-Haves To Make It Work

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1. Make sure you have software to plot your risk graph When trading straight calls or puts or vertical spreads (all legs on the same month), it is relatively easy to work out the max risk, max profit and breakeven point to draw risk graph. However, calendar is a horizontal spread that makes up of two [...]