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Hedging is for gardeners's avatar

What do you mean by interest and dividends are “hand waved away”? They are priced into the combo via the R/C so I am a little confused what the point of that sentence was?

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Mark Phillips's avatar

Absolutely dividends and interest are priced in the combo, I just didn’t want to make that a focus. Just the idea that long call/short put ATM are a stock synthetic.

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