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Glossary · The Cash-Secured Put · C

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Collateral in plain English.

The cash set aside to buy the shares — strike x 100 per contract.

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The Cash-Secured Put

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What a cash-secured put really is

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The idea, in context

How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.

Reading the illustration

A short put at expiry: above the strike you keep the premium (gold); below the breakeven the loss grows (rose).

In French: Collatéral

Where it’s taught

The Cash-Secured Put

What a cash-secured put really is

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8 terms around this one — the words its definition uses, its lesson siblings and the terms that build on it.

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