About Married Puts
The married put strategy is one in which a trader or investor purchases underlying shares and simultaneously purchases an equivalent number of put options. The cost of the shares and the long puts are the net debit as capital is required for both purchases. Max profit is unlimited in that the underlying stock could increase exponentially, though the break even is also increased to offset the put purchase. Risk is limited to net debit minus the strike price of the put. The married put strategy provides downside protection while still being able to participate in asset price appreciation.
When employing a Married Put strategy, for each 100 shares 'long', one corresponding put option is simultaneously purchased . As stock is owned, this is a bullish strategy and the put acts as insurance for any price correction that ensues prior to expiration. If the underlying should decrease in price, the put guarantees an exit price and provides a window of time at which to sell the shares. Alternatively, a stop loss can trigger during a sharp and sudden fluctuation in the stock price and subsequently force an early sale of stock. If the stock is below the strike price at expiration the investor can exercise the put and sell their shares, sell the put and maintain the long stock position or 'roll the put out' to another expiration.
Volatility and Greek Considerations
As premium is owned, any increase in volatility (vega) will also raise the price of the put option. Conversely, with the passage of time the option will erode in value (theta). The underlying stock and long put prices will move in opposite directions: as the stock rises the put will decrease in value. As the stock decreases, the put will increase in value. The change in the put's will not be one to one with the stock but will depend on the relationship between the put's strike and the stock price (delta).
Options information is delayed a minimum of 15 minutes, and is updated at least once every 15-minutes through-out the day.
P&L and BE Calculations
Break Even (Net Debit) = Stock Price + Put Ask Price. In order for the strategy to break even, the underlying must exceed the purchase price of the stock plus the premium paid for the put.
Max Profit = Unlimited, the long put acts as insurance to cap downside losses while allowing the investor to take part in any upside gains (beyond the break even).
Max Loss = Break Even (Net Debit) - Put Strike Price, max loss is incurred if the underlying falls beyond the net debit subtracted from the purchased strike
Max Loss % = Max Loss / Net Debit, the ratio of the potential loss to the purchase price of the strategy.
Views
The page contains the following fields:
- Price~ - the last price for the underlying symbol
- Expiration Date: the option expiration date.
- Strike - the strike price of the option
- Moneyness - the percent from the last price: (strike price - last / last). Moneyness refers to the relative position of the underlying asset's last price to the strike price. When a call option's Moneyness is negative, the underlying last price is less than the strike price; when positive, the underlying last price is greater than the strike price.
- Ask - the Ask Price of the option
- Net Debit (Break Even) = Stock Price + Put Ask Price, in order for the strategy to break even, the underlying must exceed the purchase price of the stock plus the premium paid for the put.
- Max Loss – The Net Debit subtracted by the put strike price
- Max Loss% – Max Risk divided by the Net Debit
- Volume - the total number of options traded in the current day for a contract.
- Open Interest - the total number of open option contracts in the market for a particular contract. The more popular the contract is with options traders, the greater the Open Interest. An opening transaction will increase the Open Interest, and a closing transaction will decrease it.
- IV - Implied Volatility is the estimated volatility of the option strike over the period of the option. Implied volatility is calculated using the Binomial model.
- Delta -Measures the sensitivity of an option's theoretical value to a change in the price of the underlying asset.
- In the Money (ITM) Probability – The probability of the underlying trading below the put’s strike price at expiration. In such a situation, the put can be exercised for sold.
- Out of the Money (OTM) Probability – The probability of the underlying trading above the strike price at expiration.
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