LEAPS Trading Strategies by Marty Kearney
Author:Marty Kearney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-09-22T00:00:00+00:00
If the stock rises from $39 to $45 in 60 days, what will the call price be?
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It doesnât hurt to know the delta when youâre trading these LEAPS options. The Options Industry Council (OIC) offers free calculation and other tools on their Web site: www.optionseducation.org. For help calculating delta, look for the âOptions Investigatorâ under Trading Tools.
If the stock goes from $39 to $45 in the next 60 days (assuming interest rates and volatility have not changed, and there is still no dividend), this option should go from somewhere around $14 to about $18.70. It would have done fairly well at that point, up $4.70. I would make $4.70 as opposed to $6.00 if I owned the stock instead. But, look at what my investment was. Rather than risking $39 and making $6 (a 15% profit), I risked $14 to make $4.70 (a 33% return). So percentage-wise, I did twice as well owning the LEAPS call.
In dollars and cents, I would have done better owning the stock, but two points have to be remembered. First, the percentage return means more because it summarizes the use of money. (For example, I could have bought two calls and made more on a dollars-and-cents basis.) Second, with the option my risks are lower. If this stock had fallen in value, my losses could potentially be huge. But by investing in the option, I canât lose more than the cost of the option, even if the stock plummets.
So thereâs a trade off. That particular stock only started out with the first dollar move, when it moved from $39 to $40. The option only went up about $0.81 because the delta was in effect. There was not a dollar-for-dollar movement in the option. But as the stock price continues to move in the same direction, and as expiration gets closer, the delta moves higher, approaching 100.
Thereâs a trade off here. Let Marty help you figure out which is best for you at www.traderslibrary.com/TLEcorner.
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