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Affluent Investors Are Using Options Math to Borrow on the Cheap
- stargrazer 11mo agoThe title has nothing to do with the link. Correct link? Probably meant this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29/wall-street-options-trick-becomes-new-fintech-lending-hack https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29/wall-stre... 'The trade, dubbed a “box spread,” carried a kind of mystique. By combining two opposing options positions — one bullish, one bearish — Yang built a strategy that mimics a fixed-rate loan: upfront cash now, repayment at a set date, and a locked-in cost in between.'
- treetalker 11mo agoIt's a type of arbitrage, no?
- parodysbird 11mo agoNot entirely; it's doesn't necessarily involve taking advantage of price discrepancies in different "markets" of the same asset, or contract so to speak in this case, and so it doesn't necessarily lead to "guaranteed" profit in the way that arbitrage does.
- cjbenedikt 11mo agohttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boxspread.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boxspread.asp