Understanding HIGH & LOW VIX

VIX at 16: If you check today's IV behaviour, they were not spiking much even with decent delta move in BNF. The movement was subtle, giving some time to adjust. So someone having good adjustment mechanism can stay in the game longer.

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Q: Sir why call option premiums are higher the put?

A: It usually happens when there is big difference between spot & future.

Example

BN Spot: 35110
BN Future: 35300
BN Synthetic Future: 35150

It depends on our perception of what is ATM & accordingly match the calls & puts.

AN ESSENTIAL THREAD ON OPTION ADJUSTMENTS

Adjustments can be done in variety of ways & depends totally at the discretion of the trader. To get a clear mind we need to know the following:

1) What to follow,
2) How to make the adjustment,
3) When to make the adjustment. (1/5)

1) We need a way to measure the imbalance created by a delta move in an option strategy. We can measure through premiums, distance from index or delta of greeks (i personally use delta). So basically whatever way of measure we use, both sides should be equal in it. (2/5)

2) Adjustment can either be done by selling extra quantity of profitable side, buying the quantity of losing side or shifting both the sides. I personally shift the sides because with extra quantities our Gamma gets imbalanced & the risk increases if market reverses. (3/5)

3) While the first 2pts are objective, when to make an adjustment is totally subjective. It can be fine tuned through experience. It also depends upon what strategy u are using. For a short strangle the adjustment required is faster than a ratio spread or an IC. (4/5)

Straddle/strangle require faster adjustments because they are more vulnerable to delta or IV spike. Any other strategies like ratio spreads, ironfly, butterfly have some bought option, which can negate the spikes for a while. So we need a defined system as to WHEN to adjust.(5/n)

10 mistakes in my 14 years of trading as an option seller 🧵

1. Staying neutral all the time. Majority of the years i have been a neutral option seller. I now realise that having a little sense of direction would have given me an added advantage with better utilisation of capital & also leverage (till the time it was available).

2. Too much importance on adjustments. Initially like most of the new option sellers, i had this notion that i can perfect my adjustment skills for any market conditions. Ofcourse i was wrong. Market is supreme & we need to respect it at times.

3. Not giving importance to greeks. For initial 6 years i didn't even know the existence of greeks. Since i started using them, option selling has become rather less complicated on the contrary of what most people believe.

4. Having too much confidence on the certainty of theta decay. Enough is said about it already. Theta decay is not an edge.

stoploss & slippages : a thread to understand how to avoid big slippage when you get stopped out #Qunat #AlgoTradeing #Nifty #stoploss (p.s. this is just an effort to educate & example is for illustration only.) hope this helps.

1. NSE maintains two orderbooks one which has all the bid & ask offers till its full depth 2. is stoploss orderbook which is not available for anyone to lookup unlike the 1st one.
you can place two type of stoploss orders one is SL-Market & SL-limit

These SL orders gets recored in SL-Orderbook in 1st come 1st basis for that mentioned trigger price
ex. 1) 9:20 -> SL order trigger at 100 qty 500
2) 9:45 -> SL order with trigger at 100 qty 500
3) 11:30 -> SL order with trigger at 100.5 qty 500

Now when price is dropping and as soon as it starts hitting the trigger prices mentioned in SL-Orderbook .. these orders get released in pubilc bid ask orderbook. in this case for our ex. trigger execution order will be 3,1,2

for this particular day market opened gap-up, for lot of traders this becomes bullish bias .. with this bias market was in very narrow trading zone giving everyone opportunity to enter .. majority of ppl will keep SL below nearest swing low.

From HDFC Bank to Kotak to Bajaj Finance to Canara Bank!

How did lenders perform in Q4FY21?🤔

A thread🧵on the Banking/NBFC results

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(1/24)

HDFC Bank:Stable

🏦Profits grow at 18.2%
🏦Asset quality remains stable with credit costs at 1.65% for the quarter
🏦CAR at 18.8%
🏦Gross NPAs at 1.32% vs 1.38%
🏦HDB Financial returns to profits
🏦Watching carefully on how the second wave will turn out

(2/24)

ICICI Bank Results:-Stable

🏦Operating profit grows at 20%
🏦Covid-19 provisions increased by 1000cr to 7475cr
🏦Deposits grow by 21%
🏦Net NPA declines to 1.14%
🏦Capital Adequacy at 18.06%
🏦Retail loan growth at 20%
🏦Corporate loan growth at 13%
🏦Dividend-Rs 2/share

(3/24)

Cholamandalam Investment:Stable

🏦Disbursements decline 13%
🏦Loan loss provisions at 1.4%
🏦Profits up 29%
🏦Positive on Auto financing

(4/24)

HDFC Ltd:Strong

🏦Loan disbursements grow 60%
🏦Month of March had highest ever disbursements
🏦Gross NPAs at 1.98%
🏦Individual loan NPAs at 0.99%
🏦Non-Individual Loan NPAs at 4.77%
🏦Dividend of Rs 23/share
🏦PAT grows by 19%

(5/24)

When market opens gap up/down, i check two stocks always. #HDFC and #HDFCBANK.
In first candle #HDFCBANK gave signal that today is a bulls day.
RR 1:6 on a high volume trade.
#daytrading #NIFTY #NSE #BANKNIFTY

#priceaction #candlesticks

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