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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Writing options
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:48:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.234828.6117@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <sf0xNz70Bwx58D1FB0@transarc.com> <1992Nov13.211335.22646@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Nov18.184342.12334@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.184342.12334@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins) writes:
- >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?
- >[SOME STUFF DELETED]
- >|> 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.
- >
- >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.)
-
- Well, you cannot put in a buy order at 15 when the stock is below 15
- because your broker will be obligated to buy at the best price at or
- below 15.
-
- However, what you suggest is an order to buy at the first tick
- (perhaps the first uptick) after it hits the 15 mark. I don't
- know, is there such an order? It might make sense here, except the
- commissions would indeed be high and help wipe out the commissions.
-
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-