Risk In An Options Portfolio
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Quantifying the overall risk factors of a portfolio becomes more complicated when you begin including options in addition to equities. The Greeks can be used to characterize risk for individual option contracts, as well as the overall risk of multi-contract strategies and option portfolios. Today we discuss an example of how we can calculate overall portfolio Greeks on the tastyworks platform and use them to analyze overall portfolio risk.
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