Unless it wasn’t clear from my earlier posts, I like trading. I particularly enjoy how well options help you translate your market view into a trading strategy. So I figured why not share some of them here.
BIG DISCLAIMER - I may not have position in the strategies I post here due to margin reasons. Derivatives are the most risky instruments available to retail traders. Please do your own studies before taking any trades in the stock market. I will not be responsible for outcomes of these trades. I do not own any charts or data I share here. Everything is for educational purposes only. I assume you agree to the disclaimer if you continue reading this article.
There will be some trading jargon in the discussion that follows. So here’s a short key for that:
- Position – A position in a stock would consist of multiple option trades.
- Trade – Entry or exit from an options contract.
- ROI – Return On Investment
- PoP – Probability of Profit
So there are some rules that I will follow while making these strategies:
- Maximum margin used will be 10 lacs.
After SEBI’s new margin rules, required margins have reduced greatly risk defined strategies. Some of my strategies will be risk defined. - Adjustments, i.e. additional trades, will be taken if any position has the potential to give losses.
It might take additional margin and hence we will leave some margin unused at all times. - Margin calculation will be done in the ‘India’s Best Trader’ tab of Zerodha Sensibul.
- PoP will take priority over ROI.
- Strategies will only be in the options which are liquid.
- Strategies on stock options will be in current month.
- Strategies can be initiated anytime except in the week monthly of expiry.
- Strategies targeted at events such as results, court hearings etc, will only be taken if at least twice as much free margin is available to manage any unexpected movements in stock.
- 5% of capital (i.e. 50,000) in the MTM loss on a closing basis will be the hard stop to exit any strategy.
- After 40-50% of the max profit is achieved, we will look to exit out of strategy depending upon stock movements.
I know these are a lot of rules. But trading without any is just asking for your account to be blown up. Another disclaimer would be that I have constructed this on a weekend so option premiums are according to the closing price on the Friday 4th September. When you track these tomorrow the premiums will be different. Idea isn’t to get the exact entry price but to have positions which will require minimum maintenance through the expiry. If the market moves against any of the positions I might add the adjustments done here. But don’t hold me to it. I will also do weekly expiry trading in BNF in my trading account which I may update separately.
Not all strategies will have explanations as some of them are pretty textbook.
So far we have used a little over 6 lacs for these 9 positions. I will update changes, if any, in the captions of those images. Also I will try to find a better way of putting such trades on the blog. Suggestions are welcome.
This is the first time I am putting some of my trades in public. Please do not blindly follow anything you see on the internet including this blog.
Happy trading…
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