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CRDN: Ceradyne Offers a Good Example of the Risks and Benefits of a Put-Write Strategy
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When I first became an analyst, my boss was fond of saying he’d rather have luck than brains. There are so many times, as an investor, when I have considered the understated wisdom of those words. The whole field of behavioral finance is devoted to the tricks our brains like to play on us, and there are certainly plenty of examples of cases where investors simply became too smart for their own good. I had a little case of luck last week, when I was going to write puts on either Ceradyne (CRDN) or Verizon (VZ - Annual Report), having the capital available for only one of the trades.
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http://best-option-trading.com/category/option-pricing/437/c...CRDN: Ceradyne Offers a Good Example of the Risks and Benefits of ... by Option pricing In fact, it nicely illustrates the criticisms of the Black-Scholes option pricing model so recently discussed in Conde Nast Portfolio. Namely, the big event risks are underestimated. Only havin... Original post: CRDN: Ceradyne Offers a Good Example of the Risks and Benefits of ... Tag: Option pricing
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