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Short Put Synthetic Straddle Strategy Explainer Video

The Short Put Synthetic Straddle recreates the Short Straddle strategy by shorting the underlying stock and selling enough at-the-money puts to cover twice the number of shares sold. That is, for every 100 shares shorted, 2 put contracts must be written.

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