Most people have no clarity regarding synthetics & are just too confused.
Let's begin understanding synthetics & how they can help us trade with a clear understanding!
In NSE, 99.6% of the trading is done in derivatives.
But most of those traders don't know how to lower costs and increase returns.
Here's a breakdown on Options Synthetics: 🧵
Collaborated with @niki_poojary
Most people have no clarity regarding synthetics & are just too confused.
Let's begin understanding synthetics & how they can help us trade with a clear understanding!
1. Calls
2. Puts
3. Futures/Stocks
You don't even need to touch futures/stocks. Whatever kind of payoff graph you want, you can get via options only.
Ft buy + Call sell = Put sell
Ft sell + Call buy = Put Buy
Ft sell + Put sell = Call sell
Ft buy = Call Buy + Put Sell
Fut sell = Put Buy + Call Sell
Know this very well as this is a must to know.
Also, we'll look at 3 problems and 4 myths about strategies.
Let's begin, by looking at the advantages:
Synthetics increases your leverage due to lower margins.
For eg, you want to buy a stock you have to pay a huge margin.
Instead of that you can buy an ATM call and sell an ATM put.
Vice versa for selling.
Margins are drastically lower via options.
There is a cost to trade in futures in the form of huge STT charges, brokerage etc.
Options charges are way lower, so from a charged viewpoint synthetics make more sense.
If you want to go long in July series now, can you go long in futures? No.
But you can sell puts and go long in July series now in options.
We cannot short stocks in India, we need to trade via futures. Some traders don't like to trade in futures as they trade via collateral and mtm loss needs to be paid daily.
Synthetics takes care of that as u only have to pay when booked.
1. Liquidity Issue - In stocks, there are liquidity issues when you try to use synthetics in ITM options.
2. Indian markets have low liquidity in contracts beyond the current month.
Covered call = Fut buy + 2600 call sell
Put sell via synthetics = 2600 Put Sell
Low liquidity here in the Put sold.
Options mtm losses can be adjusted against collateral till you don't "book" the loss.
Futures irrespective of if you book or don't book the loss, you still need to pay by cash daily.
1. Tripple Straddle has a huge advantage.
2. Inverted strangle has an advantage over strangles.
I couldn't have explained better than @SarangSood Sir this concept in his thread.
Read how he shows you how there is no advantage to both.
https://t.co/Gn6hjqIEzm
A THREAD
— Sarang Sood (@SarangSood) May 14, 2021
Topic: Why triple straddle has no real benefit.
A triple straddle is essentially an ATM Straddle & one or two step away straddle on either side. The position is almost neutral strategy just like any other neutral straddle or strangle.
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If you buy a call profit is unlimited, but if no movement occurs then the option will deteriorate in value.
If you buy fut and buy put, and if the stock doesn't move, the put goes to zero and fut doesn't give profit.
Both are the same.
1. Low probability of success
2. Constant theta decay.
These same traders when they trade futures are buying puts as "hedges" too which is the same as buying options.
This is totally illogical.
Can achieve the same via only selling puts.
When we buy fut and sell call to "hedge" we pay two margin requirements.
Selling a put requires only one margin.
Vice-versa for covered puts.
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— Mitesh Patel (@Mitesh_Engr) January 30, 2021
Here let me explain through simple math.
Say BN at 30000
30000 straddle trading at combine premium 800 ( based on current volatility)
Put at 400
Call at 400
You don\u2019t know direction. Sold both.
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1. Best Sources of knowledge for a beginner in option selling?
Zerodha Varsity from @Nithin0dha's team & the @tastytrade financial network.
Links:
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1. How to form a trading plan.
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3. Technical analysis logics you can use daily.
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3. What are the preconditions to start option Selling:
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- Support/Resistance
- Chart Patterns
- Candle Patterns
- Dow Theory (HH, LL)
This will help you start taking high probability trades.
4. Risk Management is a must for option selling
If you don't learn to manage your risk, making money in trading is going to be an extremely difficult endeavor
Have some rules:
1. Risk no more than 0.25% per trade as a beginner
2. Risk no more than 2% in a day for the first year
Collaborated with @niki_poojary
1. Best Sources of knowledge for a beginner in option selling?
Zerodha Varsity from @Nithin0dha's team & the @tastytrade financial network.
Links:
2. Top YouTube Channel for Options Learning?
Power of Stocks - Subhasish Pani
What you'll learn:
1. How to form a trading plan.
2. How to scale an account with risk-reward in option selling.
3. Technical analysis logics you can use daily.
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3. What are the preconditions to start option Selling:
You should know technical Analysis basics like:
- Support/Resistance
- Chart Patterns
- Candle Patterns
- Dow Theory (HH, LL)
This will help you start taking high probability trades.
4. Risk Management is a must for option selling
If you don't learn to manage your risk, making money in trading is going to be an extremely difficult endeavor
Have some rules:
1. Risk no more than 0.25% per trade as a beginner
2. Risk no more than 2% in a day for the first year
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• The A,B,C,D one should be aware of before taking a plunge into option selling
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On Sunday 21st June, 14 year old Noah Donohoe left his home to meet his friends at Cave Hill Belfast to study for school. #RememberMyNoah💙
He was on his black Apollo mountain bike, fully dressed, wearing a helmet and carrying a backpack containing his laptop and 2 books with his name on them. He also had his mobile phone with him.
On the 27th of June. Noah's naked body was sadly discovered 950m inside a storm drain, between access points. This storm drain was accessible through an area completely unfamiliar to him, behind houses at Northwood Road. https://t.co/bpz3Rmc0wq
"Noah's body was found by specially trained police officers between two drain access points within a section of the tunnel running under the Translink access road," said Mr McCrisken."
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