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Guts

eitherways eitherways

Long Guts like Strangle is a volatility strategy that aims to make money either ways from a stock/index soaring up or plummeting down

Legs:2Risk:Limited RiskProficiency :Expert

Example:

InstrumentQtyPrice
BUY NIFTY 30-Jun-26 21100 CE653007.25
BUY NIFTY 30-Jun-26 27100 PE650

When To Execute?

Outlook is Directional Neutral in Guts. You are looking forward for increasing volatility with stock price moving explosively in either direction

Trade

Buy 1 lot ITM Call and Buy 1 lot ITM Put with same expiration. Expiry is at distant away to avoid exponential time decay that happens as expiration approaches.

Advantages

Being Directional Neutral, you can participate in either ways volatility jumps

Ideal to trade Guts would be when you are expecting wider movement in stocks

Disadvantages

Time decay is harmful to Guts

Time day accelerates exponentially in last week of expiry

Its expensive to built Guts as both options are ITM

Guts

Maximum Profit

Maximum Profit is unlimited beyond Lower BEP (Put Strike minus total premium) or Higher BEP (Call Strike plus total premium).

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Maximum Loss

It is Net debit Strategy as you have bought both Call & Put. Maximum Loss is limited to total premium paid