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- From: venky@thelonious.bellcore.com (G A Venkatesh)
- Subject: Re: How to Protect Capital Gains?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.204433.22766@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Reply-To: venky@thelonious.bellcore.com (G A Venkatesh)
- Organization: Bellcore, Morristown NJ
- References: <y9z1x+a@rpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:44:33 GMT
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- In article <y9z1x+a@rpi.edu> floydb@rpi.edu writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >>
- >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.
- >
-
- Not directed at the above answer but considering all the games one can play
- in Wall Street, why is gambling still illegal in parts of the US?
-
- venky
-