Complex option strategies look intimidating until you notice what they are built from. This walkthrough starts with the naked short put, the simplest bullish premium selling trade there is, then shows the same leg sitting inside a short strangle, a jade lizard and a put ratio spread.
In every one of them the short put supplies most of the credit, most of the positive theta and nearly all of the downside risk, while the added legs change the delta and reshape the graph. Learn the one payoff picture and the rest get much easier to read. Education, not a recommendation.
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Chapters
00:00 What a naked short put is
01:02 Reading the profit and loss graph
01:55 Why traders use it
02:49 Taking delivery of the shares
03:25 Adding a call makes a strangle
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