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Compare Long Put and Covered Call options trading strategies. Find similarities and differences between Long Put and Covered Call strategies. Find the best options trading strategy for your trading needs.
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| About Strategy | A Long Put strategy is a basic strategy with the Bearish market view. Long Put is the opposite of Long Call. Here you are trying to take a position to benefit from the fall in the price of the underlying asset. The risk is limited to premium while rewards are unlimited. Long put strategy is similar to short selling a stock. This strategy has many advantages over short selling. This includes the maximum risk is the premium paid and lower investment. The challenge with this strategy is that options have an expiry, unlike stocks which you can hold as long as you want. Let's assume you are bearish on NIFTY and expects its price to fall. You can deploy a Long Put strategy by buying an ATM PUT Option of NIFTY. If the price of NIFTY share... Read More | A Covered Call is a basic option trading strategy frequently used by traders to protect their huge share holdings. It is a strategy in which you own shares of a company and Sell OTM Call Option of the company in similar proportion. The Call Option would not get exercised unless the stock price increases. Till then you will earn the Premium. This a unlimited risk and limited reward strategy. Let's assume you own TCS Shares and your view is that its price will rise in the near future. You will Sell OTM Call Option of TCS at a price, where you target to sell your shares. You will receive premium amount for selling the Call option and the premium is your income. |
| Market View | Bearish | Bullish |
| Strategy Level | Beginners | Advance |
| Options Type | Put | Call + Underlying |
| Number of Positions | 1 | 2 |
| Risk Profile | Limited | Unlimited |
| Reward Profile | Unlimited | Limited |
| Breakeven Point | Strike Price of Long Put - Premium Paid | Purchase Price of Underlying- Premium Recieved |
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| When to use? | A long put option strategy works well when you're expecting the underlying asset to sharply decline or be volatile in near future. |
The covered call option strategy works well when you have a mildly Bullish market view and you expect the price of your holdings to moderately rise in future. |
| Market View | Bearish When you are expecting a drop in the price of the underlying and rise in the volatility. |
Bullish When you are expecting a moderate rise in the price of the underlying or less volatility. |
| Action |
Let's assume you're Bearish on Nifty currently trading at 10,400. You expect it to fall to 10,000 level. You buy a Put option with a strike price 10,000. If the Nifty goes below 10,000, you will make a profit on exercising the option. In case the Nifty rises contrary to expectation, you will incur a maximum loss of the premium. |
Let's assume you own TCS Shares and your view is that its price will rise in the near future. You will Sell OTM Call Option of TCS at a price, where you target to sell your shares. You will receive premium amount for selling the Call option and the premium is your income. |
| Breakeven Point | Strike Price of Long Put - Premium Paid The breakeven is achieved when the strike price of the Put Option is equal to the premium paid. |
Purchase Price of Underlying- Premium Recieved |
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| Risks | Limited The risk for this strategy is limited to the premium paid for the Put Option. Maximum loss will happen when price of underlying is greater than strike price of the Put option. |
Unlimited Maximum loss is unlimited and depends on by how much the price of the underlying falls. Loss happens when price of underlying goes below the purchase price of underlying. Loss = (Purchase Price of Underlying - Price of Underlying) + Premium Received |
| Rewards | Unlimited This strategy has the potential to earn unlimited profit. The profit will depend on how low the price of the underlying drops. |
Limited You earn premium for selling a call. Maximum profit happens when purchase price of underlying moves above the strike price of Call Option. Max Profit= [Call Strike Price - Stock Price Paid] + Premium Received |
| Maximum Profit Scenario | Underlying goes down and Option exercised
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Underlying rises to the level of the higher strike or above. |
| Maximum Loss Scenario | Underlying goes up and Option not exercised
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Underlying below the premium received |
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| Advantages | Unlimited profit potential with risk only limited to loss of premium. |
It helps you generate income from your holdings. Also allows you to benefit from 3 movements of your stocks: rise, sidewise and marginal fall. |
| Disadvantage | You may incur 100% loss in premium if the underlying price rises. |
Unlimited risk for limited reward. |
| Simillar Strategies | Protective Call, Short Put, Long Straddle | Bull Call Spread |
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