OPTION CALL PUT STRATEGY
IFCI is extremely volatile these days. Annulized volatility of IFCI is above 91.We suggest strangle strategy in IFCI to make most of this situation.
The long strangle, also known as buy strangle or simply "strangle", is a neutral strategy in options trading that involve the simultaneous buying of a slightly out-of-the-money put and a slightly out-of-the-money call of the same underlying stock and expiration date.
IFCI STRANGLE STRATEGY
LEG1: BUY IFCI 25 CALL @ .75
LEG2: BUY IFCI 20 PUT @ .85
COST =12800
RISK PER LOT = (.75+.85)*80000=12800
RETURN = UNLIMITED
LOWER BREAK EVEN POINT :18
HIGHER BREAK EVEN POINT 27
Pay off table
Closing price
|
Lot size
|
trading cost
|
Total Investment
|
Return from call
|
return from put
|
Payoff
|
17
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
24000
|
11200
| |
17.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
20000
|
7200
| |
18
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
16000
|
3200
| |
18.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
12000
|
-800
| |
19
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
8000
|
-4800
| |
19.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
4000
|
-8800
| |
20
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
20.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
21
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
21.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
22
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
22.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
23
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
23.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
24
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
24.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
25
|
8000
|
12800
|
0
|
0
|
-12800
| |
25.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
4000
|
0
|
-8800
| |
26
|
8000
|
12800
|
8000
|
0
|
-4800
| |
26.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
12000
|
0
|
-800
| |
27
|
8000
|
12800
|
16000
|
0
|
3200
| |
27.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
20000
|
0
|
7200
| |
28
|
8000
|
12800
|
24000
|
0
|
11200
| |
28.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
28000
|
0
|
15200
| |
29
|
8000
|
12800
|
32000
|
0
|
19200
| |
29.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
36000
|
0
|
23200
| |
30
|
8000
|
12800
|
40000
|
0
|
27200
| |
30.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
44000
|
0
|
31200
| |
31
|
8000
|
12800
|
48000
|
0
|
35200
| |
31.5
|
8000
|
12800
|
52000
|
0
|
39200
|
The long options strangle is an unlimited profit, limited risk strategy that is taken when the options trader thinks that the underlying stock will experience significant volatility in the near term. Long strangles are debit spreads as a net debit is taken to enter the trade.