Chapter 06 · Section 6.1

Synthetically short

You can be synthetically short the underlying by:

a) buying a call and buying a put.
• b) selling a call and buying a put.
  Yes. The combination of a short call and a long put, at the same exercise price and expiration, will yield a synthetic short underlying position. Continue
  c) buying a call and selling a put.
  d) selling a call and selling a put.

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