ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Compare Option Strikes With This by Tim Zurick How do you compare options with different strikes, margin requirements, and expiration dates? Here's a tool that will help you make that decision. More bang per buck: Many businessmen will tell you that there is no more important factor in financial decision-making. Option sellers face a specific version of this decision: How should limited margin dollars be allocated among possible trades to maximize return on investment? Figure 1 frames the question. Is option trading an investment? Perhaps not; in several respects it is a unique class of trad...