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Chapter 29: Introduction to Index Option Products and Futures 519
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Assuming the strategist did not anticipate assignment and therefore did not
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exercise his long calls, he has several choices after receiving an assignment notice the
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next morning. First, he could do nothing. This would be an overly aggressive bullish
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stance for someone who was previously in a hedged position, but it is sometimes
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done. The strategist who takes this aggressive tack is banking on the fact that the sell
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ing after the assignment will be temporary, and the market will rebound thereafter,
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giving him the opportunity to close out his remaining longs at favorable prices. This
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is an overly aggressive strategy and is not recommended.
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The most prudent approach to take when one receives an early assignment on
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a cash-based option is to immediately try to do something to hedge the remaining
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position. The simplest thing to do is to buy or sell futures, depending on whether the
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assignment was on a put or call. If one was assigned on a put, a portion of the bull
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ishness (short puts are bullish) of one's position has been removed. Therefore, one
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might buy futures to quickly add some bullishness to the remaining position.
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Generally, if one were assigned early on calls, part of the bearishness of his position
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would have been removed - short calls being bearish - and he might therefore sell
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futures to add bearishness to his remaining position. Once hedged, the position can
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be removed during that trading day, if desired; by trading out of the hedge estab
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lished that morning.
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One should receive this assignment notice early in the morning, so he can
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immediately hedge his position in the overnight markets. If he waits until the day ses
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sion opens, he might use futures or options to hedge. One should be particularly
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careful about placing market orders in an opening option rotation, especially on index
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options after a severe downside move has occurred the previous day. Market makers
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are very nervous and are not willing to sell puts as protection to the public in that sit
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uation. Consequently, puts are notoriously overpriced after a large down day in the
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stock market. One should refrain from buying put options in the opening rotation in
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such a case. In the future, it is possible that comparable situations may exist on the
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upside. To date, however, all gaps and severe mispricing anomalies have been on the
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bearish side of the market, the downside.
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CONCLUSION
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The introduction of index products has opened some new areas for option strategists.
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The ideas presented in this chapter form a foundation for exploring this new realm
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of option strategies. Many traders are reluctant to trade futures options because
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futures seem too foreign. Such should not be the case. By trading in futures options,
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one can avail himself of the same strategies available in stock option. Moreover, he
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may be able to take advantage of certain features of futures and futures options that
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