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With long calls, some people choose to swing for the fences every time, making pie-in-the-sky bets with high risk and high potential returns. That strategy could mean big wins when it works, but it could also bring a lot of strikeouts and big losses. We’ll explain how to dial back the risk a little bit for a “smarter way” to buy long calls.
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Outline:
0:00 Introduction
1:28 What is a long call?
3:08 Long call greeks
4:26 Mistakes to avoid
8:46 The smarter approach
15:50 Exit rules
19:02 Managing your options trades
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