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- From: floydb@rpi.edu
- Subject: re: How to Protect Capital Gains?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:30:55 GMT
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- >3) You could buy puts. You can't get called on the options and you
- > don't realize any profit this year from the transaction. You
- > lock in the sale price even if the stock goes down. If the stock
- > goes up, you could sell the put options at a loss or you could
- > let them expire worthless. If you don't want to loose much on
- > the put options and you don't think the stock will go up too
- > much in the next two months then you could buy puts in the money
- > at a strike price six months out (April/May). With the stock
- > price staying the same time-value will have little impact and
- > intrinsic value will remain constant, you might loose 10% to time
- > plus commissions.
- >
- >good luck
- >
- >barry
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- I forgot to mention that in choice 3) the value of the put options
- goes up as the stock goes down. Of course the potential capital
- gain on the retained stock decreases. However, if you buy in the
- money put options to begin with then the decreasing stock price
- could increase option intrinsic value faster than the decrease
- in time-value so that the value of the options increase or remain
- constant.
-
- For example: Buy an April put at $15 with the stock at $13 1/2;
- premium might be $1 1/2 instrinsic plus $1 time value = $2 1/2 cost;
- the stock goes to $10 on Feb. 1st-> $5 intrinsic plus $1/2 time value
- = $5 1/2. You originally paid $2 1/2 for options worth $5 1/2 now,
- however your stock is now worth $3 1/2 less, with net loss = $1/2
- per share, which may be attributed to the decreased time-value
- of the options.
-
- You could sell the puts and buy more stock with the proceeds if
- you felt the stock would go up again, or you could exercise the
- puts at $15 and buy back the stock at $10, or simply sell the
- puts and retain the stock.
-
- Commissions cost will probably dictate which choice you make if
- you are dealing with small quantities of stock (100 shares) vs
- large quantities of stock (10,000 shares).
-
- good luck again
-
- barry
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