Options Playbook Radio 173: Understanding the Greeks, Part One
Options Playbook Radio · The Options Insider Radio Network
August 31, 201719m 56s
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Show Notes
Now that earnings season is over it's time to get back to basics: the Greeks. You can find an entire chapter on Greeks in The Options Playbook. This is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition.
In this episode:
- A review of last time
- Using the Greeks
- What does a delta do?
- Meet the Greeks in The Options Playbook
- As expiration approaches, what happens to delta? For that, you need gamma
- What about theta?
- Delta when a contract is in-, at- or out-of-the-mooney
- Delta moves slower than other Greeks
- You can't have slow time decay on a fast moving option
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