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Overwriting

Strategy of selling Call or Put options in quantity, hoping that they will not be exercised. Option writers do this when they suspect the underlying is incorrectly valued, and so the buyer will let the options expire and the Writer will simply earn Option premiums, but this is a risky strategy.

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