tax straddle. A combination of two similar futures contracts (one bought and one sold) that tend to move in opposite directions so that a loss on one is offset by a gain in the other. The contract showing the loss is sold in the current year (shortly before year's end), while the contract showing the gain is sold in the next year.
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Tax Straddle. A practice in which two futures or options contracts, one expected to gain and one expected to lose, are sold in two different tax years. The contract expected to lose is sold at the end of one tax year while the one showing a gain is sold at the beginning of the following year.
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A straddle is hedging strategy that involves buying or selling a put and a call option on the same underlying instrument at the same strike price and with the same expiration date. If you buy a straddle, you expect the price of the underlying to move significantly, but you're not sure whether it will go up or down.
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straddle - the act of sitting or standing astride. span. call option, call - the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date. put, put option - the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date.
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straddle the fence. Fig. to support both sides of an issue. (As if one were partly on either side of a fence.) The mayor is straddling the fence on this issue, hoping the public will forget it. The legislator wanted to straddle the fence until the last minute, and that alone cost her a lot of votes. See also: fence, straddle.
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A straddle is any set of offsetting positions on personal property. One example, is a put and call option on the same number of shares of a particular security, with the same exercise price and expiration date.
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v. strad·dled, strad·dling, strad·dles. v.tr. 1. a. To stand or sit with a leg on each side of; bestride: straddle a horse. b. To be on both sides of; extend over or across: a car straddling the centerline.
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(Athletics (Track & Field)) athletics a high-jumping technique in which the body is parallel with the bar and the legs straddle it at the highest point of the jump. 11. (Card Games) (in poker) the stake put up after the ante in poker by the second player after the dealer.
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straddle. 1  When a girl sit's on a guy's thigh's wraps her pussy around his penis and ride's him like a cowboy on the open range. 2  to place both legs around something, as you would when riding a horse. 3  to walk, stand, or sit on with the legs wide apart.  A quicker way of moseying to class.
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Top definition. straddle. When a girl sit's on a guy's thigh's wraps her pussy around his penis and ride's him like a cowboy on the open range. As Chad was taking a nap Kiersten sneaked into his room hopped in his bed and straddled him!
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what is a straddle
A straddle is any set of offsetting positions on personal property. A straddle means any set of offsetting positions on personal property.