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Covered Straddle Strategy Explainer Video

The Covered Straddle is a bullish strategy in options trading that involves the simultaneous selling of equal number of puts and calls of the same underlying stock, striking price and expiration date while owning the underlying stock. Note that only the call options are covered.

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