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Old 10th February 2012, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by sudhashbahu View Post
I have no clue of options. How would the case you indicated work? It sounds too good to be true that you get umlimited benefit on one side and losses get capped.
With very high volatility (as there was in Dec end) it is extremely risky to go for naked shorts. A covered short would have worked much better for you.

You shorted one Mini Nifty Feb Future @4742 and other @4775.
Now you had a exposure of -40 units @4758.

Suppose you want to keep a stop loss and buy an out-of-the-money call option of 4800 for 50 Rs premium (say). So total outgo = 50X40=2000.(option premium)

Now there are three possible scenarios.

A) Nifty Feb expires @ 4750

Profit from Futures = 8 X 40 = 320
Loss from Options = -2000 (Options expire worthless)
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Net P&L = -1680


B) Nifty Feb expires @ 5400

Loss from Futures = -642 X 40 = -25680
Profit from Options = 600 X 40 = 24000-2000 (premium amount)=+22000
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Net P&L = -3680


C) Nifty Feb expires @ 4400

Profit from Futures = 358 * 60 = 21480
Loss from Options = -2000 (Options expire worthless)
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Net P&L = 19480.

So using this strategy your downside is limited to max 3680 Rs loss while you have unlimited upside ( 19480 in this case)
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