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Long Call Synthetic Straddle Strategy Explainer Video

The Long Call Synthetic Straddle recreates the Long Straddle strategy by shorting the underlying stock and buying enough at-the-money calls to cover twice the number of shares shorted. That is, for every 100 shares shorted, 2 calls must be bought.

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