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• Setting Strike Price Probability At Expiration by David White

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 22:12 (56-59): Setting Strike Price Probability At Expiration by David White Here's one way you can increase your odds for a short-term play. Nassim Taleb's exceptional book, Fooled By Randomness, helped me finally gain the proper understanding of the probability of hitting a strike price at expiration: "The statistic that 90% of all option positions lost money is meaningless (i.e., the frequency) if we do not take into account how much money is made on average during the remaining 10%." Let's take a look at what this means. PRICE AT EXPIRATION Setting a real-odds n...

AUTHOR: David WhiteDATE: DEC 2004SUBJECT: Options