Iron Condor
Foundations · 6 min

American style, European style, and early exercise

Two settlement rules, two product families, one operational rule of thumb: do not exercise early.

In this lesson

  • Which products use which style
  • Why early exercise is almost always wrong
  • The dividend exception

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