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Strangle

eitherways eitherways

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

Legs:2Risk:Limited RiskProficiency :Intermediate

Example:

InstrumentQtyPrice
BUY NIFTY 21-Jul-26 24150 CE6596.85
BUY NIFTY 21-Jul-26 24050 PE65112.5

When To Execute?

Outlook is Directional Neutral in Strangle; Ideal when you are looking forward for increasing volatility with stock price moving explosively in either direction

Trade

Buy 1 lot OTM Call and 1 lot OTM 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 Strangle would be when you are expecting wider movement in stocks

Disadvantages

Time decay is harmful to Strangle as a time day accelerates exponentially in last week of expiry

As BEP in Strangle is wider. If stock fails to give desired move, one can lose the premium

Strangle

Maximum Profit

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