AppliedMultiple choice
You buy the -delta call and sell the -delta put on the same expiry. What are you mainly exposed to?
- ASkew, plus a long delta position
- BThe level of implied volatility
- CTime decay, since one leg is short
- DNothing, since the deltas offset
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