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Option Trading Tip – Credit Spread Cashflow
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You may or may not have heard of credit spread option trading but they can be used to advantage in terms bullish, neutral or comment on.
They are a strategy which involves the purchase and sale of two calls or up to strike price but different expiration dates even to establish a “credit”, that is to say, spendable cash total cash generation.
This is an excellent option trading strategy to take advantage of the decay ‘time, this option provides, but with limited risk.
Of course, the amount of profit potential is limited to credit received when the trade.
Let me give you an example of this option, powerful and underused, negotiation strategy.
Suppose that the QQQQ (Nasdaq monitoring unit 100) is trading A.50 and we believe it will continue to rise in the price.
To create a vertical credit spread using the site (place of sale is profitable if the market rises), we could do the following:
1) Sell the put (expiring this month).
and
2) Buy put (expiring this month).
TIP:
In my experience, it is always better to sell short-term option, ‘Out-of-the-money’ bonus for three main reasons:
1) Out of the money options have lower deltas, which means that the stock should move further increases the value of our option sold (remember that we want it decreases).
2) “Current Month” options (30 days or less to expire) is when the decay time is the fastest and value of our option sold is eroding away with every day.
3) Unlike the purchase of options if the stock moves very little or not at all, we win!
Say we have reçu.90 cents per contract for the sale of the place and we payé.40 cents per contract by buying the place.
This transaction gives us an overall credit de.50 cents per contract (.90 -. 40).
If we sold 20 contracts and purchased 20 put contracts in place that would give us a credit total, 000 (2000 X.50 hundred shares).
So basically, if QQQQ expires at any price above we will do our maximum profit, which is the original loan, we received (.50 cents).
On the other hand if QQQQ expires at any price below our cost de.50, we will face a loss.
Consider all possibilities.
Once we entered the trade, the QQQQ may either:
1) To go up a bit.
2) To go far.
3) Go sideways.
4) To go a bit down.
5) To go down a lot.
The beauty of this style of negotiation is that we win in four of five of these situations, and in many cases we can even win in five!
Let me show you how.
The QQQQ is trading at 30.50, if it raises a little dire.80, our option to sell (put) will expire worthless and we will keep all of the premium.
If the QQQQ moves much to say even happen and we will not keep the premium.
If the QQQQ moves sideways and stays around de.50, again (put) will expire worthless and we will not keep the premium.
If the QQQQ stops just say 0.15, the same will happen and we will keep the premium.
OK, well well!
The only way we can lose in this trade is if the QQQQ goes down much below dessous.50 (which is the most expensive strike less the premium).
If that was the end of expiration and the QQQQ was trading below (our option strike price sold) and we have exercised our total loss would be the difference between the exercise price of the put option and current stock price less the total credit, we have received.
Our maximum loss will be realized at any price at or below our strike price of option bought.
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