Switching gears, losses can add up quickly in a synthetic long options trade. If Stock XYZ tanks to $45, Trader A would lose $500, or 10% of the initial investment. Meanwhile, ...

The market risk in synthetic long stock is the same as that of owning 100 shares of the stock. However, in this example, owning shares costs $5,000, which can be bought for 50% on margin; and the ...

Lastly, most of the ETF's distributions are a return of capital (ROC), which means it's mainly returning its investors' cash ...

There is a better way to hold stocks for the long term, and that's by buying a Call option and Selling a Put option at the same strike price and with the ...

YBIT is an ETF that tries to churn out income from Bitcoin's volatility. It writes covered calls on its own "synthetic long" ...

A synthetic long stock position is created by buying an at-the-money call option and selling an equal number of at-the-money put options of the same underlying security with the same expiration date.

Switching gears, losses can add up quickly in a synthetic long options trade. If Stock XYZ tanks to $45, Trader A would lose $500, or 10% of the initial investment. Meanwhile, ...

A synthetic put is an options strategy that combines a short stock position with a long call option on that same stock to mimic a long put option. It's also called a synthetic long put.

Alamos Gold (AGI) rose 5.99% Tuesday after a beautiful bounce off the 50-day moving average. Today, I want to look at using options to create a synthetic long position for a fraction of the cost ...

A synthetic call is an options strategy where an investor, holding a long position, purchases a put on the same stock to mimic a call option.