Sentence examples for straddle on from inspiring English sources

It appears one options optimist enacted a short straddle on Walmart in the expectation of improved share price by expiration in January 2011.

As the trailer implies, "First Point" is at once a surf film and a film noir, an exploration of the California dream and the Hollywood nightmare, worlds that Lohan doesn't have to pretend to straddle on screen.

Rather than admiring his sophisticated straddle on the Iraq war (he voted in favour of giving Mr Bush war powers but then relentlessly sniped at him for "rushing to war"), they despise it as being the typical fence-sitting of a Boston Brahmin whose middle name is Forbes, who was partly educated in Switzerland and who married a Heinz heiress.

To take advantage of a potentially sharp move following the stock's earnings report later this month, traders may want to consider playing a December 25 straddle on the security.

The investor appears to have sold a sizeable straddle on Coke today with shares currently trading higher by 0.85% at $62.60 as of 1 55 pm in New York.

PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish Fund : A large-volume short straddle on the Dollar Bullish Fund, which is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the price and yield performance of the Deutsche Bank Long U.S. Dollar Futures index, indicates one investor anticipates shares of the underlying fund will trade within a specified range through April expiration.

Again and again (and again) in "Ark of the Liberties" he writes the kind of fence-straddling "on the one hand/on the other hand" paragraphs that fight themselves to a draw.

Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP 12.48pm GMT The second athlete to take to the slalom course, Sweden's Maria Pietilae-Holmner, who finished fifth in the giant slalom on Tuesday, straddles one of the early gates and that's her Olympics over.

The benches, should they be approved, can be straddled, lounged on like an Art Deco sofa, or used to play cards or write a letter or read a book.

Its N-terminus sits in a groove formed by the heavy chain, while the C-terminus straddles on a saddle formed by the R53 light chain residue AspL30, on one side hanging the side chain of ArgP440 and on the other side the side chain of IleP439.

And I'd bounce half-heartedly off the springboard and land - thud - on the top, straddled on my tender bits.