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- From: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: Writing options
- Reply-To: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 18:43:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.184342.12334@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.211335.22646@cbnews.cb.att.com>,
- ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
- |> In article <sf0xNz70Bwx58D1FB0@transarc.com> Jim_Laredo@transarc.com
- |> writes:
- |> >So say I have 1000 shares of USAir and I want to write call options
- |> >since I believe that even though the stock is going to go up it
- |> >will not do it at a fast pace. So the stock is trading around 13
- |> 1/2
- |> >how do I compute the cost of each option, for which month should
- |> >I write it for? is it worth it to write a smaller block or am
- |> >I just going to pay per contract?
- |>
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- |>
- |> If you truly believe U will not exceed 15 by the expiration
- |> date you select, you might even consider going partially naked.
- |> You could write 15 options, and if the price did go over 15, you
- |> could try to buy back the extra 5 before you suffer any loss.
- |> --
- |> Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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-
- Could one also put a stop loss order in to buy 500 shares at 15
- (or above) as a way to cover the "naked" portion of the above
- transaction?? That way when the stock reaches the option strike
- price, the shares needed to cover the extra 5 options are
- automatically purchased at or near the price level at which
- the option could be exercised. The cost of this insurance
- is the brokers commision on the purchase. Is a broker's commission
- on 500 shares too much of a premium for the coverage acheived??
-
- What is this called? There must be a name for this type of
- hedging?? (As you can tell, I'm a options spectator rather than
- speculator.)
-
- -Keith
-