Context date October 2009 In options trading, a verticalspread is an options strategy involving buying and selling of multiple options of the same underlying security, same expiration date, but at different strike prices. They can be created with either all calls or all puts. The term originates from the trading sheets that were used in the open outcry pits on which option prices were listed out by expiry date & strike price, thus looking down the sheet vertical the trader would see all options of the same maturity. Bull verticalspread Bull call spread and bull put spread are bullish vertical spreads constructed using calls and puts respectively. Bear verticalspread Bear call spread and Bear put spread are bearish vertical spreads constructed using calls and puts respectively. References reflist cite book last McMillan first Lawrence G. title Options as a Strategic Investment edition 4th ed. publisher New York New York Institute of Finance year 2002 isbn 0 7352 0197 8 Derivatives market Category Options Category Derivatives finance ... more details
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Wiktionary Vertical may refer to Vertical direction , the direction aligned with the direction of the force of gravity, as materialized with a plumb line Vertical angles , a pair of angles sharing the same vertex and bounded by the same pair of lines but are opposite to each other Vertical company , a publishing company based in New York City Vertical music , a musical interval where the two notes sound simultaneously Vertical Inc , a Japanese novel and manga company founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai Vertical market , a group of similar businesses and customers which engage in trade based on specific and specialized needs Vertical novel , a 2010 novel and sequel to Sideways novel Sideways written by Rex Pickett Vertical movie , a 1967 Soviet movie starring Vladimir Vysotsky Vertical, a type of wine tasting in which different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery are tasted See also Vertical integration , a management term describing a style of ownership and control Vertical monopoly , a monopoly produced through vertical integration Vertical blinds , a type of window blind Vertical jump , a measure of how high an individual or athlete can elevate off the ground from a standstill Horizontal disambiguation disambig de Vertikale fr Verticale nl Verticale ru simple Vertical uk ... more details
In options trading, a bear spread is a bearish , verticalspread options strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security. Because of put call parity , a bear spread can be constructed using either put option s or call option s. If constructed using calls, it is a bear call spread . If constructed using puts, it is a bear put spread . Bear call spread A bear call spread is a limited profit, limited risk options strategy options trading strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security. It is entered by buying call options of a certain strike price and selling the same number of call options of lower strike price in the money on the same underlying security with the same expiration month. Example Consider a stock that costs 100 per share, with a call option with a strike price of 105 for 2 and a call option with a strike price of 95 for 7. To implement a bear call spread, one buys the 105 call option, paying a premium of 2, and sells the 95 call option, making a premium of 7. The total profit after this initial options trading phase will be 5. After the options reach Expiration options expiration , the options may be exercised. If the stock price ends at a price P below or equal to 95, neither option will be exercised and your total profit will be the 5 per share from the initial options trade. If the stock price ends at a price P above or equal to 105, both options will be exercised and your total profit per is equal to the sum of 5 from the original options trading, a loss of P ... down but it actually did not. Bear put spread File Bear spread using puts.png thumb 400px right Profit diagram of a bear spread using put options A bear put spread is a limited profit, limited risk ... Bull spread Box spread Options spread Option finance Option References cite book last McMillan first ... Category Options Category Derivatives finance pl strategia nied wiedzia pt Bear spread ... more details
In options trading, a bull spread is a bullish , verticalspread options strategy that is designed to profit from a moderate rise in the price of the underlying security. Because of put call parity , a bull spread can be constructed using either put option s or call option s. If constructed using calls, it is a bull call spread . If constructed using puts, it is a bull put spread . Bull call spread A bull call spread is constructed by buying a call option with a low exercise price K , and selling another call option with a higher exercise price. Image BullSpreadCalls.jpg Payoffs from a bull call spread thumb right 300px Image Bull spread using calls.png thumb right 300px A bull spread can be constructed using two call options. Often the call with the lower exercise price will be moneyness at the money while the call with the higher exercise price is moneyness out of the money . Both calls must have the same underlying security and expiration month. Example Take an arbitrary stock XYZ currently priced at 100. Furthermore, assume it is a standard option, meaning every option contract controls 100 shares. Assume that for next month, a call option with a strike price of 100 costs 3 per share, or 300 per contract, while a call option with a strike price of 115 is selling at 1 per share, or 100 per contract. A trader can then buy a long position on the 100 strike price option for 300 and sell a short position on the 115 option aka write a 115 call for 100. The net debit for this trade then is 300 100 200. This trade results in a profitable trade if the stock closes on expiry above 102. If the stock s closing price on expiry is 110, the 100 call option will end at 10 a share, or 1000 per contract, while the 115 call option expires worthless. Hence a total profit of 1000 200 800 ... spread A bull put spread is constructed by selling higher striking in the money put options and buying ... market Category Options Category Derivatives finance pl strategia byka The bull put spread ... more details
Lead rewrite date September 2009 File Boxspread.png thumb 400px right Profit diagram of a box spread. It is a combination of positions with a riskless payoff. In option finance options trading, a box spread ... delta neutral interest rate position . For example, a bull spread constructed from calls e.g. long a 50 call, short a 60 call combined with a bear spread constructed from puts e.g. long a 60 put, short ... eat up all your profit due to the large number of trades required for most box spreads. The box spread ... of the multiple leg spread. If the box is for example 20 dollars as per lower example getting short ... Spread Now consider the put call parity equation at two different strike prices math K 1 math and math ... stock. The subtraction done one way corresponds to a long box spread done the other way it yields a short box spread. The pay off for the long box spread will be the difference between the two strike ... a long box spread if the profit is positive or a short box spread if the profit is negative. Normally ... by transaction costs. The long box spread comprises four options, on the same underlying ... strike prices math K 1 math math K 2 math class wikitable Long bull call spread Long bear put spread ... obtain two views of a long box spread. A long box spread can be viewed as a long synthetic stock at a price math K 1 math plus a short synthetic stock at a higher price math K 2 math . A long box spread can be viewed as a long bull call spread at one pair of strike prices, math K 1 math and math K 2 math , plus a long bear put spread at the same pair of strike prices. We can obtain a third view ... is called a long strangle. Returning to the long box spread, we see that the leading diagonal is a long gut combination, and the other diagonal is a short strangle combination. Hence a long box spread may be created as a coupling of a long gut with a short strangle. The short box spread can be treated ... center The initial investment for a long box spread would be 19.30. The following table displays ... more details
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Image Pats Eagles 2007 GiletteStadium crop.jpg thumb 425px The New England Patriots playing a spread offense against the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007 NFL season 2007 Spread offense may also refer to the four corners offense in basketball . The spread offense is an offensive scheme in American football ... Athletics NAIA , CIS football CIS , and high school programs across America and Canada. The spread ... employs a no huddle offense no huddle approach. The fundamental nature of the spread offense involves spreading the field horizontally using 3, 4, and even 5 receiver sets. Some implementations of the spread also feature wide splits between the offensive linemen. The object of the spread offense is to open up multiple vertical seams for both the running and passing game to exploit, as the defense is forced to spread itself thin across the field a horizontal stretch to cover everyone. History File ... football Houston Cougars are well known for using the spread offense. The father of the spread ... the Mighty Mites . While there, he deployed the earliest form of a spread offense to great success. ref cite web url http sports.espn.go.com highschool rise football news story?id 4339959 title Spread ... a book entitled Spread Formation Football , detailing his ideas about football formations, in which the first sentence was, Spread formations are not new to football. ref cite web url http vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com ... Ellison s philosophy to create a more pass oriented version. The Spread Offense emerged in the US in the mid ..., and running backs making the correct reads on every play. The Spread allows coaches to be more .... While early versions of the spread were sometimes quite limited, modern coaches like Joe Tiller ... many teams in Alabama run the spread. However, Propst s offense was created by consultant now offensive ... in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, has pioneered new aspects of the spread offense since 1995. In his 16 seasons ... 21 State Championships. Differing Philosophies There are many forms of the spread system. One ... more details
Spread Component SC as used in the NFDRS The Spread Component is a rating of the forward rate of spread of a headfire. ref Deeming, et al., 1977 ref Deeming states that the spread component is numerically equal to the theoretical ideal rate of spread expressed in feet per minute. This carefully worded statement indicates both guidelines it s theoretical and cautions it s ideal that must be used when applying the SPread Component. Wind speed, slope and fine fuel moisture are key inputs in the calculations of the spread component, thus accounting for a high variability from day to day. The Spread Component is expressed on an open ended scale thus it has no upper limit. References reflist Category Firefighting in the United States ... more details
The Interpolated Spread or I spread or ISPRD is the difference between the yield to maturity of the Bond finance bond and the linearly interpolated yield to the same maturity on an appropriate reference curve. ref http www.classiccmp.org transputer finengineer 5BLehman 20Brothers, 20O Kane 5D 20Credit 20Spreads 20Explained.pdf Credit Spreads Explained ref See also Option adjusted spread Z spread References Reflist DEFAULTSORT I Spread Category Bonds Bond market Econ stub ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2008 Infobox Software name The Spread Toolkit developer Spread Concepts LLC ... , Peer to peer license The Spread Open Source License website http www.spread.org The Spread Toolkit ... to faults across local and wide area networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus ..., and point to point support. Spread services range from reliable messaging to fully ordered messages ... by third parties. In typical operation, each computer in a cluster runs its own instance of the Spread server, and client applications connect locally to that server process. The spread servers, in turn ... such that clients distributed across the network all communicate with a Spread server process on a single host. The Spread Toolkit is developed by http www.spreadconcepts.com Spread Concepts LLC ... Research Projects Agency DARPA and The National Security Agency NSA . Bindings Bindings for Spread ... projects ada spread ada spread on SourceForge C programming language C http www.spread.org docs spread docs 4 docs c api.html included with Spread C http www.savarese.com software libssrcspread Bindings for Spread C Sharp programming language C http www.spread.org files cspread.zip C bindings and sample ... Bindings for Spread http pobox.com taj.khattra luaspread.html luaspread by Taj Khattra Microsoft Excel http code.google.com p spread excel spread excel by Jim Kleckner OCaml http ocamlspread.sourceforge.net OcamlSpread Early release, looking for maintainer Perl http cpan.uwinnipeg.ca dist Spread Perl Spread http www.savarese.com software libssrcspread Bindings for Spread PHP http pecl.php.net package spread PECL Spread by George Schlossnagle and Rob Richards Python programming language Python http www.python.org other spread Python binding by Zope Team http www.savarese.com software libssrcspread Bindings for Spread Ruby programming language Ruby http rbspread.sourceforge.net rb spread2 http www.savarese.com software libssrcspread Bindings for Spread Squeak http bike nomad.com squeak Squeak ... more details
mergeto Book design Page spread date July 2010 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 In page layout and typography, a spread often redundantly called a two page spread is the unit formed by two adjacent, facing page paper pages in a magazine or other publication, featuring a single image such as a photograph or piece of artwork or a themed group of images such as a flowchart or collection of map s . The line down the middle where the pages come together is called the gutter. See also Center spread A spread in the center of a magazine, where the two pages are one physical piece of paper. Gatefold or foldout A page which folds out beyond the edges of the publication. Gatefolds and foldouts are frequently, but not necessarily, center spreads. Comics vocabulary Splash page Splash page Centerfold gatefolded spread. DEFAULTSORT Spread Typography Category Page layout Category Article Feedback 5 Publish stub pl Strony widz ce ... more details
Orphan date November 2010 Infobox company name Spread Co logo File Spread Co logo.jpg type Privately held company Private foundation London , United Kingdom UK Start date 2006 founder Ajay Pabari location city London location country United Kingdom UK key people Ajay Pabari small Entrepreneur Founder Chief executive officer CEO small industry Financial Services services On line trading, Contract for difference CFD s, Spread betting Financial spread betting Spread Betting and Foreign exchange market Foreign Exchange homepage http www.spreadco.com www.spreadco.om Spread Co is a Spread betting Financial spread betting financial spread betting and Contract for difference CFD provider based in the United Kingdom UK . Spread Co has also established partnerships in a wide range of countries worldwide including Canada, India, Pakistan, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. ref http www.londoninvestorshow.com ..., Ajay Pabari, founded Spread Co, as a specialist provider of Contract for difference CFD s. ref http www.financial spread betting.com Spreadco interview.html Spread Co Interview ref The company began trading in November 2006, quickly gaining a foothold in the market. In March 2008 Spread Co took ... Contract for difference CFD style trading to the Indian market. Spread Co added Spread betting Financial spread betting Spread Betting to its products in 2009, again accessed through its own in house ... trading screens and advanced charting features. 2010 has been another significant year for Spread ... ref http www.financial spread betting.com news broker news 29111 spread co cuts spreads on eurusd ftse Spread Co Cuts Spreads on Major Markets to 0.8pts ref Spread Co Cuts Spreads on Major Markets ... Spread Co s activity worldwide. Regulation Spread Co is a London based company authorised and regulated ... http www.cleanfinancial.com spread co.php Spread Co Profile ref References Reflist External links http www.spreadco.com Spread Co DEFAULTSORT Spread Co Category Financial services companies of the United ... more details
In finance , a debit spread , AKA net debit spread , results when an investor simultaneously buys an option finance option with a higher premium and sells an option with a lower premium. The investor is said to be a net buyer and expects the premiums of the two options the options spread to widen. Bullish & Bearish Debit Spreads Investors want debit spreads to widen for profit. A bullish debit spread can be constructed using calls. See Bull Call Spread bull call spread . A bearish debit spread can be constructed using puts. See Bear Put Spread bear put spread . A bull bear phase spread can be constructed using near month call & put. Breakeven Breakeven for call spreads lower strike net premium Breakeven for put spreads higher strike net premium Maximum Potential The maximum gain and loss potential are the same for call and put debit spreads. Note that net debit difference in premiums . Maximum Gain Maximum gain difference in strike prices net debit, realized when both options are In the money in the money . Maximum Loss Maximum loss net debit, realized when both options expire worthless. See also Credit spread option References cite book last McMillan first Lawrence G. title Options as a Strategic Investment edition 4th ed. publisher New York New York Institute of Finance year 2002 isbn 0 7352 0197 8 Derivatives market External links http options trading mastery.com debit spreads.html Debit Spreads Increase Your Flexibility Derivatives market DEFAULTSORT Debit Spread Category Options Category Derivatives finance Category Finance finance stub pl Debit spread ... more details
orphan date August 2008 In finance, swap spread is a popular way to indicate the credit spreads in a market. It is defined as the spread paid by the fixed rate payer of an interest rate swap over the rate of the On the run finance on the run US Treasury treasury with the same maturity as the swap. For example, if the fixed rate of a 5 year fixed for float LIBOR swap is 7.26 and the 5 year Treasury is yielding at 6.43 , the swap spread is 7.26 6.43 83 basis point bps . Swap spread became a popular indication of credit spread in Europe during the 1990s. Category Financial markets finance stub ... more details
Image Ted Spread.png thumb Long term history of the TED spread Image TED Spread Chart Data to 9 26 08.png thumb TED spread and components during 2008 Image TED Spread.png thumb TED spread during the subprime mortgage crisis The TED spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans .... Initially, the TED spread was the difference between the interest rates for three month Treasury ... Futures contract futures when date November 2011 , the TED spread is now calculated as the difference between the three month LIBOR and the three month T bill interest rate. The size of the spread is usually ... , the TED spread is 40 bps. The TED spread fluctuates over time but generally has remained within the range of 10 and 50 bps 0.1 and 0.5 except in times of financial crisis. A rising TED spread .... Indicator The TED spread is an indicator of perceived credit risk in the general economy. ref http www.bloomberg.com invest glossary bfglost.htm ted spread Bloomberg.com Financial Glossary ref This is because ... banks. When the TED spread increases, that is a sign that lenders believe the risk of default ... of bank defaults is considered to be decreasing, the TED spread decreases. ref http krugman.blogs.nytimes.com ... of 50 bps. During 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis ballooned the TED spread to a region of 150 200 bps. On September 17, 2008, the TED spread exceeded 300 bps, breaking the previous record set ... for the spread were due to inability to obtain accurate LIBOR rates in the absence of a liquid ... Libor Jumps as Banks Seek Cash to Shore Up Finances ref On October 10, 2008, the TED spread reached another new high of 457 basis points. See also LIBOR OIS spread Overnight indexed swap Treasury ... .TEDSP 3AIND Current TED Spread Quote from Bloomberg http www.nytimes.com 2008 03 14 opinion 14krugman.html ... the TED spread from the Econbrowser blog Bond market DEFAULTSORT Ted Spread Category Economic indicators ... States housing bubble Category Interbank offered rates de TED Spread el TED es TED spread ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Cheese spread is a soft, spread food spreadable , cheese or product business product containing cheese. Many commerce commercial cheese spreads are in the form of processed cheese cheese slices or cheese triangles. See also Velveeta Dairylea cheese Dairylea Laughing Cow Cheez Whiz Easy Cheese Cream cheese Liptauer Processed cheese DEFAULTSORT Cheese Spread Category Processed cheese Cheese stub ... more details
Additional citations date December 2009 Infobox software name FarPoint Spread logo Image SpreadLogo.jpg The FarPoint Spread logo. screenshot caption FarPoint Spread displaying a spreadsheet designer in Visual ... www.farpointspread.com FarPoint Spread from GrapeCity is a suite of Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet ..., and visualizing data. Spread components handle spreadsheet data at the cell, row, column, or worksheet level. History 1991 Spread released as a DLL control as the initial product offering from FarPoint Technologies, Inc. 1990s Spread VBX released. ref Citation last Glass first Brett author link publication ... pages 74 75 url http books.google.com books?id 0zoEAAAAMBAJ&pg PA97&dq 22FarPoint Spread 22 inpublisher ...&f false archiveurl archivedate issn 0199 6649 pmid pmc doi oclc 6510141 accessdate ref ref Spread ActiveX released. These components are now known as Spread COM. 2003 Spread for Windows Forms released as a completely new managed C version prompted by the launch of Visual Studio .NET. 2003 Spread for Web Forms now Spread for ASP.NET released. 2006 Spread for BizTalk released. ref http reddevnews.com articles 2008 04 01 dundas chart for net farpoint spread for biztalk and netadvantage for net and wpf.aspx Redmond Developer News FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Released ref 2009 FarPoint Technologies ... release GrapeCity to buy 50 person Triangle concern ref Versions Spread for Windows Forms 5.0 Spread for Web Forms 5.0 Spread COM 8.0 Spread for BizTalk 3.0 gallery Image Sdv5 cap vs2010 LORES.jpg Screeshot of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms version 5 in Visual Studio 2010. Image SpreadAspNet.jpg Screenshot of FarPoint Spread for Web Forms ASP.NET . Image FarPointSpreadCOM.jpg Screeshot of FarPoint Spread COM. gallery Spread for Windows Forms FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms is a Microsoft ... review Spread for Windows Forms ref In version 4.0, new cell types were added to display barcodes ... SDTimes review FarPoint Spread for Windows 4.0 ref ref http reddevnews.com articles 2008 03 01 chart ... more details
The Z spread , ZSPRD , Zero volatility spread or Yield curve spread on a simple mortgage backed security MBS is the flat yield spreadspread over the Treasury security treasury yield curve required in discounting ... yield curve spread is based on a comparison of the market price to a model of the bond which includes ... price is the Yield curve spread . The Z spread of a bond is the number of basis point s one needs ... yield curve equals the market price of the bond after accounting for accrued interest . The spread ... factors such as liquidity and credit risk . The Z spread quantifies the impact of these additional factors. It is the spread you need to add to the curve you are discounting with in order to generate ... benchmark, the resulting spreads may be markedly different. It is the spread then and this type of methodology in finding it, that is at fault and not the bonds or the market Z spread This measures the spread the investor or trader would capture over the entire benchmark Zero curve if the bond was held to maturity. The Z spread is calculated as the spread that will make the present value of cash ... spread equal to the non benchmark security s price. This is done by trial and error. This is different than the nominal spread because the nominal spread just uses one point on the curve. For example ... the bond s price. If they do, then you have found the Z spread, if not, you have to go back to the drawing board and use a new spread until the present value of those cash flows equals the bond s price. The Advantage of Z Spread As the Z Spread is not dependent upon only one point on the Yield Curve ... outlined above are eliminated. It is then a measure of Credit Spread without the distortions of YTM ... Spread undistorted by the complexities of individual bonds. Benchmark for CDS Basis The Z Spread ... the CDS Fee minus the Z Spread for a bond of the same maturity. For the example, 10 Year RBS CDS is currently 199.7 bps, the Z Spread for their 10 year Global bond is 286.8, giving a negative basis ... more details
multiple issues original research April 2010 unreferenced April 2010 Image Nutella ak.jpg thumb right Hazelnut Spread Chocolate spread is a chocolate flavoured paste which is eaten mostly spread on bread s and toast s or similar pastries such as muffin s and pita s. Chocolate spread is a product often favored by children and serves as a prevalent spread on their sandwich sandwiches . Some adults enjoy chocolate spread sandwiches as a comfort food . Although it tastes, smells, and looks like chocolate it does not solidify. The paste usually contains Cocoa solids cocoa and oil , and is also likely to contain milk and additional taste and smell components. At times it also includes nut fruit nuts or honey . Chocolate spread is normally sold in glass jars or plastic tubs. See also Nudossi Nutella Nugatti Chocolate DEFAULTSORT Chocolate Spread Category Spreads Category Chocolate confectionery stub de Haselnussbrotaufstrich es Crema de chocolate fr Tartinade au chocolat it crema spalmabile al cioccolato he lb Schockelasbotter nl Chocoladepasta ja nn Sjokoladep legg ... more details
Financial markets In finance , the yield spread or credit spread is the difference between the quoted ..., 2011 ref It is a compound of Yield finance yield and spread finance spread . The yield spread of X ... X minus the percentage return on investment from financial instrument Y per annum . The yield spread ... yielding 5 while junk bonds with the same duration are averaging 7 , the spread between Treasuries and junk bonds is 2 . If that spread widens to 4 increasing the junk bond yield to 9 , the market is forecasting ... economy . There are several measures of yield spread, including Z spread and option adjusted spread . Yield Spread Analysis Yield spread analysis is made by comparing the maturity, liquidity and creditworthiness ... spread of X over Y, it is just the percentage return on investment from one financial instrument labelled ... his options by analysing risk and return of investment. The yield spread analysis also helps investors .... When the spread is wide between bonds of different quality ratings, the investors can conclude ..., when the spread is narrowing between different bonds of different risk ratings, the market is considered ..., when the spread between junk bonds and Treasury notes is four percent historically, the market is generally concluded to be factoring lesser risk of default. Moreover, the yield spread analysis is also ... of one percent is the yield spread, which is the additional interest that serves as additional ... spreads. Yield spread analysis assumes that there exists normal relationship between the yields for bonds in alternative sectors. The spread is seen to increase during periods of recession and decreases ... loan mortgages , a yield spread is the difference between the interest rate actually paid by the borrower ... is the yield spread. As the lender earns additional interest on the loan without assuming additional ... yield spread premium s to the brokers who bring them loans with yield spreads. Notes Refs See also Yield spread premium Yield curve spread Credit spread bond Z spread Option adjusted spread Bond market ... more details