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Long Put Condor

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Long Put Condor Strategy is a range bound. It offer good Reward / Risk with low cost

Legs:4Risk:Limited RiskProficiency :Advanced

Example:

InstrumentQtyPrice
BUY NIFTY 06-Oct-26 22400 PE6599.3
SELL NIFTY 06-Oct-26 22450 PE65120.3
SELL NIFTY 06-Oct-26 22500 PE65144.1
BUY NIFTY 06-Oct-26 22550 PE65172.35

When To Execute?

Long Put Condor is directional neutral strategy wherein you expect less volatility in the stock. It is similar to Long Put Butterfly Spread with variation that instead of selling 2 ATM Put , we sell 1 ITM Put and 1 OTM Put..In scanario where strike difference between 1st and 2nd strike is not equal to difference between 3rd and 4th strike;it is known as Modified Long Put Condor Strategy

Trade

Buy 1 ITM Put, Sell 1 middle ITM Put, Sell 1 middle OTM Put and Buy 1 deep OTM Put

Advantages

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Long Put condor provides high yielding strategy with low cost. It is best suited for low volatility stock. It is idle for current month expiry

Disadvantages

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Time decay is harmful is the stock is below first strike or above fourth strike Put and advantageous if the stock is between second and third strike Put

Long Put Condor
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Maximum Profit

Maximum profit in the strategy is when stock expires between the two short puts. Maximum Profit is difference between first and second strike less net outflow

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Maximum Loss

Maximum Loss is net outflow between buy Puts and sell Puts. Maximum Loss is when stock expires at or below first strike or at or above highest strike