NIFTY Futures Mechanical Trading

good move Vinay, try to protect your profits money missed is better than money lost. Actually I have an opinion have you considered purchasing in the money option of delta near one at the close of each day and close your position on the first half an hour of trading to protect your profits. Apparently your profits have almost halved from 1600 points to 900 points , this is almost a 50% drawdown you now have to make a 100% to get to where you originally were. I think perhaps if you protected your profits even at the expense of forfeting possible gains your results may be dramatically improved. It appears gaps are proving more detremental than profitable.

Best wishes

marcus, can you elaborate on these ITM Options/Delta near one as I completely don't understand options. Or may be point to a resource where I can help myself.

tks
nitesh

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Vinod

sure i can nitesh this forum is all about sharing from one another and growing together,see its best you read a book but I try to tell u briefly. You know that an option is a derivative as its value is derived from an underlying asset, in this case the nifty. So if the nifty goes up by a point how much would price of nifty option go up by? Would it also go up by a point? Well not necessarily it depends on what we call the value of the greeks. The greeks are so called coz they are mathematical characteristics of the Black Sholes option pricing model named after greek alphabets which the represent in the equation. They are ratio's which measure the sensitivity of the price of the option with respect to 5 factors, the change in price of underlying asset (delta), change in volatility (wega), time to expiration (theta), risk free interest rate (rho), and rate of change of delta (gamma)

The greek which affects the price of the option the most is delta, u can also define it as a ratio (no units) the change in price of the option for a change of one unit in price of the underlying asset. Delta varies from 0 to 1, if its 0 then for a change in one point of the asset there will be no change in the option price and if its 1 for a change of 1 point in the asset the option price wi change by 1. Its imp to note delta isn't constant it also changes with option price and that is determined by gamma. Delta also represents the probability of the option expiring ITM. So an option with delta 1 has 100% chance of not wxpiring worthless, option with delta 0.5 has 50% chance and delta 0 has 0% chance of not expiring worthless. So now you know what deta is (this is only very brief ok)

Options have 3 basic states ITM/ATM(this is only theoretical practical ATM is very rare)/OTM. In the money means the option price has intrinsic value, it will not expire worthless you can exercise it at expiration to buy the asset at a price lower than the prevailing market price or sell the asset at a price higher than the prevailing market price. So by definition ITM call options have strike price below prevailing market price, (in prder to have intrinsix value) ATM has same strike and CMP, and OTM call option has strike price above CMP. So this explains ITM concept.

Lastly ur question of why ITM and delta near 1. This actually is not necessary, but I said it for simplicity sake only. You can also buy ATM or OTM option what you have to do is calculate the delta of your futures position and buy an equal but opp delta option quantity. For eg if total delta is say +5 then you can buy 10 ATM options of delta (0.5*10) or if you like 25 OTM option of delta (0.2*25), the basic idea it to delta neutral hedge. But if you do this gamma also come into play and changes delta. Gamma is max for ATM options (delta 0.5) and decreases to 0 as the option becomes deeper ITM or farther OTM. So to make Gamma 0 we have either far OTM option or deep ITM option. So its best to buy ITM option as gamma is zero and delta is naer 1 its simple and no need for laborious calculation. It also has its drawbacks like being expensive and having least % profit but we are hedging and not interested in profit.

Hope this helps somewhat

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Vinod

Thank You Very Much

Thanks a lot marcus....sure it helped!

but, can I ask for more? marcus, can you explain with a practical example of how we (vinod) cud have protected the erosion of abt 200+ pts. in nifty on Feb 7? You hv also mentioned : and, what wud be the cost of this (i.e. hedging with the help of options?

And, I do hope Vinod does not mind, as I am using his thread for different subject (but related).

Nitesh

This is out of the scope of Mechanical Trading as it might be suitable for one of such cases, but cannot be applied as a rule for all trades that we take.

Marcus, can options stragety be incorporated in mechanical trading by rule of thumb. If yes, then only its worth the effort.

Regards

how about writing an option along with ????/

Thanks a lot nadodav!

please continue this Nifty mechanical recos.