Calendar spreads are an option trade that involves selling a short-term option and buying a longer-term option with the same strike. Traders can use calls or puts and they can be set up to be neutral, ...

Calendar spreads are a versatile options strategy that allows traders to capitalize on time decay and changes in implied volatility. This strategy involves selling a short-term option while ...

Calendar spreads — buying one futures contract month and selling another in the same commodity — are among the most structurally powerful tools in futures trading. But identifying truly ...

I would like to continue my discussion of spreading time by describing diagonal calendar spread options. This spread, unlike the horizontal calendar spread, uses different strikes. It is a slightly ...