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Alligator spread
A Position consisting of a Combination of Put options and Call options that collectively create commissions so High that it is almost impossible to turn a Profit regardless of which direction the Underlier moves. The Term originates from the idea of the Spread "eating the investor alive."
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Commission , Call , Call option , Combination , High , Option , Profit , Position , Put , Put option , Spread , Term , Underlier
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52-week high ,
Accrual of discount ,
Amortization of premium ,
At par ,
All or any part ,
At best ,
At call ,
All-risks coverage ,
At risk ,
Add-on service ,
Abstract of title ,
Action to quiet title ,
As is ,
Assignment to creditors ,
Attorney in fact ,
Amortization term ,
Assignment of mortgage ,
A shares ,
Assets under management ,
Alligator spread ,
American option ,
American-style option ,
Asian option ,
At the money ,
Average option ,
Across the board ,
Additional paid-in capital ,
Ad valorem ,
Against the box ,
At the bell ,
At the close ,
At the figure ,
At the full ,
At the market ,
At the opening order ,
Automated Pricing and Reporting System ,
Away from the market ,
Accredited investor ,
Angel investor ,
Below the line ,
Book profit ,
Books of final entry ,
Books of original entry ,
Banking Act of 1933 ,
Bid/ask spread ,
Bid-to-cover ratio ,
Bureau of Public Debt ,
Brought over the wall ,
Buying on margin ,
Buy on close ,
Buy on opening ,
Buy the book ,
Balance of payments ,
Board of Governors ,
Breaking the syndicate ,
Bill of exchange ,
Bill of sale ,
Breach of trust ,
By the book ,
Bank term loan ,
B shares ,
Butterfly spread ,
Buy and write ,
Box spread ,
Breadth-of-market theory ,
Beat the gun ,
Cost Of Goods Sold ,
Cost of sales ,
Commission ,
Call ,
Call date ,
Call price ,
Call protection ,
Call risk ,
Certificate of Participation ,
Combination bond ,
Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures ,
Conversion option ,
Call money rate ,
Code of procedure ,
Commission house ,
Capitalization of income ,
Cost of Living Adjustment ,
Cost-of-living index ,
Council of Economic Advisers ,
Cash and carry trade ,
Chasing the market ,
Cheapest to deliver ,
Chicago Board of Trade ,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission ,
Commodity-product spread ,
Crack spread ,
Crush spread ,
Combination plans ,
Convertible term insurance ,
Cost-of-living rider ,
Certificate of stock ,
Chicago Board Options Exchange ,
Cost of carry ,
Certificate of title ,
Cancellation of debt ,
Certificate of Claim ,
Cost of debt capital ,
Cost of funds ,
Collective trust ,
C shares ,
Calendar spread ,
Call option ,
Call ratio backspread ,
Call swaption ,
Class of options ,
Close to the money ,
Combination ,
Covered call ,
Covered option ,
Covered put ,
Credit spread ,
Certificate of Occupancy ,
Cloud on title ,
Cash or Deferred Arrangement ,
Collectively bargained plan ,
Combination annuity ,
Class A Shares ,
Class B Shares ,
Crash of 1929 ,
Crash of 1987 ,
Child and dependent care credit ,
Coefficient of determination ,
Cup and handle ,
Certificate of delivery ,
Close a position ,
Cornering the market ,
Curbs in ,
Direct profit ,
Deposit in transit ,
Direct deposit ,
Direct sends ,
Date of issue ,
Date of payment ,
Direct issuer ,
Direct paper ,
Division of Enforcement ,
Division of Investment Management ,
Division of Market Regulation ,
Date of record ,
Dividend in arrears ,
Desk (the) ,
Division of labor ,
Decreasing term life ,
Direct financing ,
Direct placement ,
Direct Public Offering ,
De-escalation clause ,
De facto ,
Durable Power of Attorney ,
Date of maturity ,
Debtor in possession ,
Debtor-in-possession financing ,
Deed of Release ,
Deed of Trust ,
Direct lease ,
Discharge of bankruptcy ,
Discharge of lien ,
Due-on-sale clause ,
Debit spread ,
Deep in the money ,
Deep out of the money ,
Delta spread ,
Diagonal spread ,
Deed of Surrender ,
Department of Housing and Urban Development ,
Direct rollover ,
Direct transfer ,
Direct participation program ,
Dogs of the Dow ,
Daily high ,
Depth of market ,
Eurodollar certificate of deposit ,
Embedded option ,
Escrowed to maturity ,
Either-or order ,
E-mini ,
Exchange of spot ,
Equity option ,
Ex-all ,
European-style option ,
Exchange-traded option ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ,
Even spread ,
First In First Out ,
Federal Savings and Loan Association ,
First call date ,
Flight to quality ,
Flow of funds ,
Federal Call ,
Fill or kill ,
Front-ending an order ,
Foreign currency option ,
Forward P/E ,
Factors of production ,
Favorable balance of trade ,
Federal Trade Commission ,
Futures option ,
Foreign direct investment ,
Form S-1 ,
Friends and family offering ,
Full faith and credit ,
Family of funds ,
Fund of funds ,
Far option ,
Free and clear ,
Free right of exchange ,
Federal ID Number ,
Gross profit ,
Gross profit margin ,
G-7 ,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ,
G-8 ,
Gross spread ,
Growth and income fund ,
Gather in the stops ,
High-grade bond ,
High yield ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976 ,
Hit the bid ,
House call ,
House of issue ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ,
High ,
High-flyer ,
High-tech stock ,
Holder in due course ,
High credit ,
High-ratio mortgage ,
Home equity line of credit ,
Horizontal spread ,
Head and shoulders ,
High-low index ,
Hammering the market ,
Held at the opening ,
Holding the market ,
In escrow ,
Intermediate-term ,
In-house ,
Investment Advisor Act of 1940 ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
In line ,
Intercommodity spread ,
Interdelivery spread ,
Intermarket spread ,
Intracommodity spread ,
Insider Trading sanctions Act of 1984 ,
Internal Rate of Return ,
Investor relations ,
Indication of interest ,
In intestacy ,
In play ,
In-process research and development ,
Index option ,
Interest rate option ,
I/O strip ,
In-service withdrawal ,
Imbalance of orders ,
In and out ,
Individual investor ,
Inside spread ,
Institutional investor ,
In sympathy ,
In the tank ,
Jointly and severally ,
Jumping the gun ,
Joint and several liability ,
Joint and survivor annuity ,
Knock-out option ,
Last In First Out ,
Lender of last resort ,
Law of one price ,
Long position ,
Long-term ,
Lending at a rate ,
Limit-on-close order ,
Law of demand ,
Law of supply ,
Limit move ,
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange ,
Level term insurance ,
Long-term care insurance ,
Long-term debt ,
Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities ,
Letter of comment ,
Line of credit ,
Loan-to-cost ,
Loan-to-value ,
Lock-in ,
Long-term mortgage ,
Lapsed option ,
Listed option ,
Long-term lease ,
Leading the market ,
Locked in ,
Long-term gain or loss ,
Level I quotes ,
Medium-term ,
Medium-term bond ,
Mob spread ,
Maintenance call ,
Make a market ,
Margin call ,
Market maker spread ,
Market on close order ,
Mark-to-market ,
Medium of exchange ,
Marginal propensity to consume ,
Most distant month ,
Money at call ,
Married put ,
Most active ,
Net profit ,
Net profit margin ,
Negotiable certificate of deposit ,
Negotiable Order of Withdrawal ,
Notice of Sale ,
National Association of Securities Dealers ,
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system ,
Non-equity option ,
Null and void ,
Notice of Default ,
Naked call ,
Naked option ,
Naked put ,
Near option ,
Neutral spread ,
Non-qualified stock option ,
Non-statutory stock option ,
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ,
Naked position ,
Net position ,
New high ,
Nonaccredited investor ,
Off the books ,
Other long term liabilities ,
Office of Thrift Supervision ,
Out-of-favor ,
Over-the-Counter ,
On-floor order ,
On margin ,
Option account ,
Or better ,
Operating profit margin ,
Option ,
Opinion of title ,
On account ,
On-the-spot loan ,
Option income fund ,
Option chain ,
Option contract ,
Option holder ,
Option margin ,
Option pool ,
Option premium ,
Option price ,
Option pricing curve ,
Options Clearing Corporation ,
Option series ,
Option spread ,
Options Prices Reporting Authority ,
Option writer ,
Out of the money ,
Old age, survivors, and disability insurance ,
On-balance volume ,
On close ,
On open ,
On the opening ,
Open position ,
Option exchange ,
Pooling of interests ,
Pre-depreciation profit ,
Pre-tax profit margin ,
Profit ,
Profit and loss statement ,
Profit margin ,
Pro forma ,
Payment-in-kind security ,
Price Value of a Basis Point ,
Provisional call feature ,
Put bond ,
Put provision ,
Position ,
P&L ,
Profit warning ,
Position trader ,
Pre-existing conditions ,
Power of Attorney ,
Prioritization of debt ,
Perpendicular spread ,
Physical option ,
Position limit ,
Price spread ,
Protective put ,
Protective put buying ,
Put ,
Put option ,
Put swaption ,
Put warrant ,
Profit-sharing ,
Paid-in capital ,
Paid-in surplus ,
Passive investor ,
Pre-syndicate bid ,
Private Investment in Public Equity ,
Preservation of capital ,
Put ratio backspread ,
Point-and-figure chart ,
Profit ratio ,
Painting the tape ,
Paper profit ,
Profit-taking ,
Put/call ratio ,
Quality spread ,
Qualified institutional investor ,
Quick turn ,
Reports and Records ,
Return of capital ,
Return on Capital ,
Return on Invested Capital ,
Return on Total Assets ,
Reading the tape ,
Regulation D ,
Regulation G ,
Regulation T ,
Regulation U ,
Round of funding ,
Rules of Fair Practice ,
Rate of exchange ,
Reciprocal of European terms ,
Round turn ,
Regulation A ,
Right of first refusal ,
Right of rescission ,
Right to Know ,
Revolving line of credit ,
Right of recourse ,
Rule of 78 ,
Ratio calendar combination ,
Ratio calendar spread ,
Ratio spread ,
Registered options principal ,
Right of redemption ,
Retirement Equity Act of 1984 ,
Return on Capital Employed ,
Rate of return ,
Realized profit ,
Real rate of return ,
Retail investor ,
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses ,
SG&A ,
Savings and Loan ,
Short-term reserves ,
Sight letter of credit ,
S&L ,
Securities and Exchange Commission ,
Short-term ,
Securities Investor Protection Corporation ,
Segregation of securities ,
Sell the book ,
Split commission ,
Standard of living ,
Second-to-die insurance ,
Settlement options ,
Stock option ,
Stock option plan ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Sale and leaseback ,
Satisfaction of debt ,
Staggered board of directors ,
Selling the spread ,
Single option ,
Spread option ,
Synthetic put ,
Selling short against the box ,
Shorting against the box ,
Short position ,
S Corporation ,
Short-term gain or loss ,
Subchapter M ,
Subchapter S Corporation ,
Schedule C ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975 ,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ,
Seek a market ,
Small investor ,
Sophisticated investor ,
S&P phenomenon ,
Spread ,
Stop and reverse ,
Term CD ,
T-Bill ,
Term ,
Term bond ,
Term to maturity ,
Treasury Direct ,
Take a position ,
Trailing P/E ,
Term insurance ,
Tenancy by the entirety ,
TED spread ,
Term deposit ,
Term loan ,
Truth in Lending ,
Term trust ,
Time spread ,
Tenancy at will ,
Top hat plan ,
The Street ,
Timing the market ,
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 ,
Tax Reform Act of 1986 ,
Tax Reform Act of 1993 ,
Trading profit ,
Take a bath ,
Term repo ,
Term sheet ,
U.S. Government Agency Security ,
U.S. Savings Bond ,
U.S. Treasury ,
U.S. Treasury Bill ,
U.S. Treasury Bond ,
U.S. Treasury Note ,
U.S. Treasury Securities ,
Underwriting spread ,
Unappropriated profit ,
Underlier ,
Uncovered call ,
Uncovered option ,
Uncovered put ,
Unit of trade ,
Unit of trading ,
Unrealized profit ,
Vertical spread ,
Waiver of premium ,
Widow-and-orphan stock ,
W-2 Form ,
W formation ,
When, as, and if issued ,
X or XD ,
Year-To-Date ,
Yield spread ,
Yield to call ,
Yield to maturity ,
Yield to worst ,
Y shares