Synthetic
Options strategy · Level 3 · Spreads & short options
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Buy a call and sell a put at the same strike. By put-call parity this behaves exactly like 100 shares — for a fraction of the cash.
Where Tradecraft teaches it
Level 3 · Spreads & short options, in the lesson “Synthetics, parity and the reversal”: Put-call parity, synthetic long stock, and why conversions and reversals lock a price.
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