Depending on the strategy, calls can be used to reduce risk (covered call-writing) or to add staggering amounts of risk ("naked" call-writing), so brokers issue options-trading permission only selectively.

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Plus, you are not depending on your memory to determine what your sell strategy is.

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All of this reinforces the question: is the strategy for cutting deficits and depending on structural reforms to boost growth working?

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Depending entirely on the U.S. market is a losing strategy for any manufacturing business in the long run and bad for employment in America.

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Shield and ammo management are just as important as they are in the campaign (and in every Halo game) and these considerations add another layer of strategy to the equation, for better or worse depending on your predicament.

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My seasonal strategy will give its re-entry sometime between October 16 and the end of November, depending on what the additional technical indicator I use says at the time.

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