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206 • The Intelligent Option Investor
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avoid this extreme downside are worth much more than they are presently
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trading at.
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The entire premium paid must be treated as a realized loss because
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it can never be recovered. If the stock fails to move into one of the areas
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of exposure before option expiration, there will be no profit to offset this
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realized loss.
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There is no reason why you have to buy puts and calls in equal num-
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bers. If you believe that both upside and downside scenarios are materially
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possible but believe that the downside scenario is more plausible, you can
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buy more puts than calls. This is called ratioing a position.
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T enor Selection
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Because the strangle is a combination of two strategies we have already
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discussed, the considerations regarding tenor are the same as for each of
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the components—that is, using the drift advantage in long-term equity an-
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ticipating securities (LEAPS) and buying them or the longest-tenor calls
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available and balancing the fight against drift and the cost of rolling and
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buying perhaps shorter-tenor puts.
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Strike Price Selection
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A strangle is slightly different in nature from its two components—long
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calls and long puts. A strangle is an option investor’s way of expressing
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the belief that the market in general has underestimated the intrinsic
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uncertainty in the valuation of a firm. Options are directional instru-
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ments, but a strangle is a strategy that acknowledges that the investor
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has no clear idea of which direction a stock will move but only that
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its future value under different scenarios is different from its present
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market price.
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Because both purchased options are OTM ones, this implies, in my
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mind, a more speculative investment and one that lends itself to taking
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profit on it before expiration. Nonetheless, my conservatism forces me to
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select strike prices that would allow a profit on the entire position if the
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stock price is at one of the two strikes at expiration. Because I am buying
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exposure to both the upside and the downside, I always like to make sure
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