strangle

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The so-called strangle strategy entails buying a put option and call option that are below and above the market, respectively, and that share the same expiration date.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Stagflation doesn’t have to strangle your stock portfolio.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

The goal "is not to dominate China; nor is it to strangle or humiliate them", the document says.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

The immediate reason for the latest round of protests in Iran was a series of currency devaluations, a sign of Iran’s deepening economic crisis as oil prices decline and Western sanctions strangle business activity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

Now the old fears returned and threatened to strangle me, to sink me back in that horrible pit of depression I’d spent years struggling to climb out of.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry