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Generally not, because the price of the option is going to rise commensurate with the uncertainty of it being in the money.

It gets more and more difficult to accurately forecast that as uncertainty increases, which is why they're not priced as efficiently farther in the future. But since this is somewhat well known, you need to have some kind of edge to make it work - buying options haphazardly won't.




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