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Covered Combination Strategy Explainer Video

A Covered Combination holds the underlying shares and sells a lower-strike put and a higher-strike call on the same underlying and expiration. Only the call is covered by those shares; the put can require an additional stock purchase. For a nonnegative stock the total downside loss is large but finite.

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