Questions tagged [option-strategies]
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Iron condor with positive vega
I am backtesting this Iron Condor before earnings.
In the position summary Vega (Mid Quote) is -3.04\$ but in the chart below (IV vs Profit $) it's clearly shown that a decrease in volatility will ...
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Is short-gamma inherently a losing strategy?
With regards to a recent blowup of optionsellers.com - several analysts (specially on Quora) are blaming it on their strategy of being short gamma i.e. selling options. Is it correct to call short-...
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Arbitrage from ATM option trading?
So I was testing out a collar options strategy (long put, short call, and long shares of the underlying stock) in a backtest for a school finance project, and the profits & losses are given by the ...
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Delta neutral strategy using a combination of put and call options
I am learning about quantitative finance and currently learning about delta neutral strategies. The examples given are most of the times of the form: if you buy call options, you can hedge your ...
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Swaptions Gamma Interview Questions
A while ago, I interviewed for a trader role and was given the below assignment (I didn't get the job). I wanted to revisit the questions to learn from my mistakes and be better prepared next time. ...
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Risk management tools for long term Gamma/Vega sellers subject to margin calls
TL;DR: if you're a retail investor and you systematically sell long-term vertical spreads while staying Delta-neutral, your main risk comes from Vega and the Gamma of opening gaps that can throw you ...
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Strategy to write uncovered put and call
I found a strategy called "covered combo" where you sell 1 put, 1 call, and purchase 100 shares of the underlying; is there a name for doing this without purchasing the 100 shares?
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Benefits of systematically trading OTC options instead of exchange-traded options
Is there a case to trade liquid OTC options (FX, single-name equity, swaptions, etc.) instead of exchange-traded index options in a systematic strategy?
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4 Leg Synthetic Stock Options Strategy
Traditionally, a synthetic stock option involves buying a call and writing a put at the same strike price. I recently encountered an ETF prospectus that claims to achieve this exposure with a four leg ...
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What is the strategy for this piece of information
Heavy Math background, very light finance background:
Suppose I have a stock $S$ whose price is measured by the market once on times $t_0$ $t_1$ $t_2$.
Now the market has some opinion for how the ...
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Pricing options with 0 or negative underlying values
I am trying to calculate the value of an option whose underlying is the calendar spread between two months for a commodity (front month Brent vs 2nd month), usually known as a calendar spread option.
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Upper bound option price in volatility dimension
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I have a theoretical question about the value of an option when spot price goes to infinity as a function of volatility going to infinity.
I know that for a call option:
The option value ...
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Gamma Pnl vs Vega Pnl
Why does Gamma Pnl have exposure to realised volatility, but Vega Pnl only has exposure to implied volatility? I am confused as to why gamma pnl is affected (more) by IV and why vega pnl isnt affected ...
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Funded equity collars and margin loans
There is an article in the Financial Times today concerning equity funded collars [1]. The equity collar structure is used by a counterparty $A$ which wants to build up a position in a stock $S_t$. ...
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varswap replication doubt
I have a doubt regarding the varswap replication- I know the portfolio of options with proper weights is a static one, and that there is a dynamic position required in underlying. My confusion is ...
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How to replicate a leveraged dividend stock play
I see that there are some ETNs that use options to replicate a 2x leveraged index, so they pay out double the dividends and track double the returns of the index on a monthly basis. I was wondering ...
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Database for Historical data for backtesting [duplicate]
I have 1 min historical data for NSE futures and options.
I want to backtest trading strategies using Python.
Which are good databases to organise options and stocks data?
How to structure data so ...
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Stop loss strategy using options
I normally trade stocks using Robinhood, and use a simple stop loss strategy for 2:1 P/L trades. I recently got invited to use their options via their phone app, and was interested in trading some ...
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Arbitrage opportunity with call options? [duplicate]
Call options with strikes 100, 120, and 130 on the same underlying asset and with the same maturity are trading for 8, 5, and 3, respectively (there is no bid-ask spread). Is there an arbitrage ...
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Stop-loss start-gain paradox: Why is it a 'paradox'?
The Stop-Loss Start-Gain Paradox and Option Valuation: A New Decomposition into Intrinsic and Time Value, by Peter P. Carr and Robert A. Jarrow, in The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 3, Issue 3, ...
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Higher Order Greeks
In studying options pricing a while back, I had learned of the higher order sensitivities of of Speed and Color.
Speed was the rate at which the gamma changes with the underlying.
Color is a ...
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Replicate a Portfolio with Given Payoff
Looking for a convincing general strategy [not trial and error] to solve these kind of questions:
Any help will be super helpful!
Thanks a bunch!
Replicate a portfolio on an underlying asset $S$ ...
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What really is Gamma scalping?
How does Gamma scalping really work? It seems there is no true profit scalped. If we look at the simplest scenario, Black-Scholes option price $V(t,S)$ at time $t$ and the underlying stock price at $S$...
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Arbitrage strategies in Rubinstein's binomial tree one-step
Suppose that the current stock price is $S_0=20$ and the call option price with no arbitrage is $c=0.633$. Knowing that the expiry stock price can be $S_T=22$ with call option price $1$ or $S_T=18$ ...
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How to understand the no call or put spread arbitrage condition
The book Advanced Equity Derivatives Volatility and Correlation page 22 said
To preclude arbitrage we must at least require:
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Positive PnL with long volatility strategy
Suppose I was interested in longing volatility. Suppose I bought a long straddle today which expires in 3 months. Suppose that volatility was very high in those 3 months, however, the stock expires at ...
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Build a Synthetic Loan for Personal Finance
Suppose I am short of cash and want a loan for some mundane objective like travelling or buying a car. The interest rate for personal loan with my bank is too high.
Is there any way in finance that ...
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Rationale behind volatility dispersion (or correlation) trading
When looking at the explanation of CBOE S&P 500 Implied Correlation Indices available here, it is written that such indices:
[...] "may be used to provide trading signals for a strategy known as ...
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Delta hedging vs Strangle
Long volatility delta hedging and strangle are common long volatility strategies. We can make strangle delta neutral(in $) by buying more puts than calls(if an absolute value of put delta is less than ...
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Tracking error Black Scholes
Suppose an asset follows the SDE
$$ d S_{t}^{1} = \mu S_{t}^{1} dt + \sigma_{t} S_{t}^{1} d W_{t} $$
Furthermore assume that $r = 0$ and a trader who uses Black-Scholes for pricing and hedging with ...
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Trading strategies for increased realized volatility
Suppose once every 2-3 weeks I have a way to select a few equities that are likely to exhibit higher realized volatility in the future month (relative to the past month). Historically, the average ...
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When to expect profitability of a call options buying strategy
When could we expect consistent profitability of a call options buying strategy given specific statistical assumptions about X% chance of a stock price moving up by Y% within 1-5 days (or Z number of ...
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What instruments help me receive a premium?
Apart from selling options , what other instruments can I trade(sell) to collect a premium ? The main problem that I face is as follows :
I am buying a Call option which I would like to fund by ...
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To Collar or not to Collar
I have a conundrum.
I have a stock that has had considerable price appreciation over the past year. Well over 100%. I no longer see any factor (or fundamentals) supporting it's current price (in the ...
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How to approximate the Carr-Madan decomposition formula?
I have came across the excellent answer.
I'm looking for a dicrete approximation of the Carr-Madan decomposition formula of the function $f(F_T)$ of the terminal futures price by taking a static ...
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Is it possible to calculate the call-put parity for an option's portfolio?
Let's say I have designed an option's portfolio. The portfolio includes long as well as short positions in European-style put and call contracts based on the same underlying asset with different ...
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How to calculate ROI on a net credit option transaction?
If I have an option that has a net credit and results in a positive expected value (based on my own estimates of volatility), how do I calculate an ROI in order to compare with a net debit credit ...
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Time Value of Option
I am working on time value of option, and especially with dividend, and I have the following questions.
First if the consider the Black Scholes models with no dividends and free interest rate $r = 0$
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Implementation of an option tail-hedging strategy
This question directly refers to the paper "Capital Asset Pricing Mistakes: The Consistent Opportunities in Tail Hedged Equities", http://www.universa.net/Universa_SpitznagelResearch_201501.pdf.
Very ...
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How to apply Kelly criterion to a portfolio made by a stock plus a option?
First of all, assuming a Gaussian, Markowitz, well behaved world. Extensions for non-well behaved world will be welcomed.
I know that by a portfolio made by only by one stock (and a risk free bond) I ...
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Portfolio with zero or negative initial cost
Let's say I have formulated an integer linear programming (ILP) problem with the objective function $$F(X)=V(T,X)-C(t,X),$$ where $V(T,X)$ is the payoff of portfolio, and $C(t,X)$ is the initial cost ...
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What does it mean for an option strategy to be leveraged
Probably a newbie question, but what do traders mean when they say that an option strategy is leveraged ? And when can we say that it is the case ?
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Relations between Call and Put
I am trying to solve a question in finance but I am pretty much stuck and would need your help :)
Suppose you know the following information about a market:
Future is at 66
70 strike straddle is ...
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Replicating option strategies
I was curious if there was any references to replicating option strategies i.e. bull spread, bear spread, butterfly, strangle, straddle, etc...? Also what is the insight into replicating of these ...
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Shorting an option every day vs shorting only at maturity
Suppose we have 2 strategies :
strategy A : every $N$ days, we short a call option with a time-to-maturity of $N$ days;
strategy B : every day, we short $\frac{1}{N}$ of a call option with a time-to-...
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Effect of different maturity options in delta-gamma-hedging
I read about hedging with options and think i got it. However there is a case am not sure how to handle.
Is there any exception in the delta-gamma-hedging-(calculaton-)technique? - say: solve an set ...
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Calendar spread: What are the worst cases?
I am looking to solely make use of the theta decay and trying to overcome the effects of delta and Vega.
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I sell ABC Feb OTM (strike price X) with 3 x 10 = Rs. 30 credit and buy ABC Mar OTM (...
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How to use Black-Scholes' formula for a butterfly option?
I'm wondering if I can apply Black-Scholes formula to value a butterfly option, i.e: $$B(T)=V_\text{call}(S(T)-K,0)+V_\text{call}(S(T)-K',0)-2V_\text{call}(S(T)-K'',0)$$ with $K<K''<K'$, just ...
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How to automatically get all options data for a particular stock into microsoft excel?
I'm looking for a way to get the entire options chain (All options expiries) for a particular stock in excel without manually copy pasting anything. It does not have to be real time and I will only be ...
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How to trade leveraged ETFs
Leveraged ETFs (LETFs) are known to lose value over time due to the "volatility decay" effect. What're the most common strategies for trading LETFs to take advantage of this volatility effect?
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