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# Beginner Strategies

### 📈 Long Call

 Investors take a long position by buying or holding a call option. This bullish strategy aims to profit from an asset's price increase without owning the asset.

## 🐻 Short Call

Investors take a short position by selling or writing a call option. This bearish to neutral strategy potentially profits from a decline in the underlying asset's price.

## 📉 Long Put

 Investors take a long position by buying a put option. This bearish strategy aims to profit from a decline in the underlying asset's price.

## 🐂 Short Put

Investors take a short position by selling a put option. This bullish-to-neutral strategy potentially profits from a rise in the underlying asset's price.