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Compare Long Put and Short Call Butterfly options trading strategies. Find similarities and differences between Long Put and Short Call Butterfly strategies. Find the best options trading strategy for your trading needs.
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| About Strategy | A Long Put strategy is a basic strategy with the Bearish market view. Long Put is the opposite of Long Call. Here you are trying to take a position to benefit from the fall in the price of the underlying asset. The risk is limited to premium while rewards are unlimited. Long put strategy is similar to short selling a stock. This strategy has many advantages over short selling. This includes the maximum risk is the premium paid and lower investment. The challenge with this strategy is that options have an expiry, unlike stocks which you can hold as long as you want. Let's assume you are bearish on NIFTY and expects its price to fall. You can deploy a Long Put strategy by buying an ATM PUT Option of NIFTY. If the price of NIFTY share... Read More | Short Call Butterfly (or Short Butterfly) is a neutral strategy similar to Long Butterfly but bullish on the volatility. This strategy is a limited risk and limited profit strategy. This strategy consists of two long calls at a middle strike (or ATM) and one short call each at a lower and upper strike. All the options must have the same expiration date. Also, the upper and lower strikes (or wings) must both be equidistant from the middle strike (or body). In simple terms, it involves Sell 1 ITM Call, Buy 2 ATM Calls and Sell 1 OTM Call. The strike prices of all Options should be at equal distance from the current price as shown in the example below. The usual Short Butterfly strategy looks like as below for NIFTY current index value as 1... Read More |
| Market View | Bearish | Neutral |
| Strategy Level | Beginners | Advance |
| Options Type | Put | Call |
| Number of Positions | 1 | 4 |
| Risk Profile | Limited | Limited |
| Reward Profile | Unlimited | Limited |
| Breakeven Point | Strike Price of Long Put - Premium Paid | 2 Break-even Points |
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| When to use? | A long put option strategy works well when you're expecting the underlying asset to sharply decline or be volatile in near future. |
This strategy is meant for special scenarios where you foresee a lot of volatility in the market due to election results, budget, policy change, annual result announcements etc. |
| Market View | Bearish When you are expecting a drop in the price of the underlying and rise in the volatility. |
Neutral When you are unsure about the direction in the movement in the price of the underlying but are expecting high volatility in it in the near future. |
| Action |
Let's assume you're Bearish on Nifty currently trading at 10,400. You expect it to fall to 10,000 level. You buy a Put option with a strike price 10,000. If the Nifty goes below 10,000, you will make a profit on exercising the option. In case the Nifty rises contrary to expectation, you will incur a maximum loss of the premium. |
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| Breakeven Point | Strike Price of Long Put - Premium Paid The breakeven is achieved when the strike price of the Put Option is equal to the premium paid. |
2 Break-even Points There are 2 break even points in this strategy.
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| Risks | Limited The risk for this strategy is limited to the premium paid for the Put Option. Maximum loss will happen when price of underlying is greater than strike price of the Put option. |
Limited The maximum risk is limited. Maximum Risk = Higher strike price- Lower Strike Price - Net Premium |
| Rewards | Unlimited This strategy has the potential to earn unlimited profit. The profit will depend on how low the price of the underlying drops. |
Limited The profit is limited to the net premium received. This happens when the price of the underlying is trading beyond the range of strike prices at expiration date. |
| Maximum Profit Scenario | Underlying goes down and Option exercised
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All Options exercised or not exercised |
| Maximum Loss Scenario | Underlying goes up and Option not exercised
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Only ITM Call exercised |
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| Advantages | Unlimited profit potential with risk only limited to loss of premium. |
This strategy requires no investment as net premium is positive and received. It allows you to benefit from high volatile market scenarios without the need to speculate on the direction of price movement. |
| Disadvantage | You may incur 100% loss in premium if the underlying price rises. |
Profitability depends on significant movement in the price of the underlying. |
| Simillar Strategies | Protective Call, Short Put, Long Straddle | Long Straddle, Long Call Butterfly |
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