straddle

• range or extend over
• the act of sitting or standing astride
• a noncommittal or equivocal position
• a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
• the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
• sit or stand astride of
• be noncommittal
• To part the legs wide
• To stand with the ends staggered
• To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of
• The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart
• The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles
• A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities

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