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A neutral option strategy combining bull and bear spreads. Butterfly spreads use four option contracts with the same expiration but three different strike prices to create a range of prices the strategy can profit from. The trader sells two option contracts at the middle strike price and buys one option contract at a lower strike price and one option contract at a higher strike price.

Wherever one looks there are disconnects… between bonds and stocks, between risk and uncertainty, between hope and reality. But, as former fund manager Richard Breslow notes, most critically, there is a divergence between data and Fed actions, and this time is different as central banks appear to have shifted into ‘whatever it takes’ to tighten policy from emergency levels mode. 

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The put-call ratio for the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:XLI) has reached exhorbitantly low levels, and the popular ETF is in dire need of a short-term pullback.

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Trump tweets that he did not make, nor does he have, recordings of his conversations with James Comey.

The Senate minority leader warns that the plan would lead to higher costs for consumers and more people going uninsured.

Bullish options bets on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) have gotten out of hand lately, and the world’s largest ETF is due for a sharp short-term pullback soon.

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The GOP health bill changes that structure of Obamacare’s “benchmark plan” in a few major ways, Vox reports.