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Otapter 34: Futures and Futures Options 683
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This profit table shows that selling the August 625 call at 19 and buying the
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August 625 put at 31 is equivalent to - that is, it has the same profit potential as -
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selling the August future at 613. So, if one buys the put and sells the call, he will
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effectively have sold his future at 613 and taken his loss.
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His resultant position after buying the put and selling the call would be a con
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version (long futures, long put, and short call). The margin required for a conversion
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or reversal is zero in the futures market. The margin rules recognize the riskless
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nature of such a strategy. Thus, any excess money that he has after paying for the
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unrealized loss in the futures will be freed up for new trades.
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The futures trader does not have to completely hedge off his position ifhe does
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not want to. He might decide to just buy a put to limit the downside risk.
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Unfortunately, to do so after the futures are already locked limit down may be too lit
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tle, too late. There are many kinds of partial hedges that he could establish - buy
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some puts, sell some calls, utilize different strikes, etc.
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The same or similar strategies could be used by a naked option seller who can
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not hedge his position because it is up the limit. He could also utilize options that are
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still in free trading to create a synthetic futures position.
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Futures options generally have enough out-of-the-money striking prices listed
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that some of them will still be free trading, even if the futures are up or down the
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limit. This fact is a boon to anyone who has a losing position that has moved the daily
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trading limit. Knowing how to use just this one option trading strategy should be a
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worthwhile benefit to many futures traders.
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COMMONPLACE MISPRICING STRATEGIES
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Futures options are sometimes prone to severe mispricing. Of course, any product's
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options may be subject to mispricing from time to time. However, it seems to appear
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in futures options more often than it does in stock options. The following discussion
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of strategies concentrates on a specific pattern of futures options mispricing that
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occurs with relative frequency. It generally m{inifests itself in that out-of-the-money
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puts are too cheap, and out-of-the-money calls are too expensive. The proper term
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for this phenomenon is "volatility skewing" and it is discussed further in Chapter 36
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on advanced concepts. In this chapter, we concentrate on how to spot it and how to
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attempt to profit from it.
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Occasionally, stock options exhibit this trait to a certain extent. Generally, it
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occurs in stocks when speculators have it in their minds that a stock is going to expe
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rience a sudden, substantial rise in price. They then bid up the out-of-the-money
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calls, particularly the near-term ones, as they attempt to capitalize on their bullish
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expectations. When takeover rumors abound, stock options display this mispricing
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