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Lecture 04 : Uncertainty in Financial Markets : Idea of Hedging (Contd.) — Transcript

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  1. 0:01[Music]
  2. 0:22[Music]
  3. 0:27welcome to the next lecture we'll
  4. 0:30continue with uh the idea of hedging and
  5. 0:33uncertainty in financial
  6. 0:35markets in the last lecture we this is
  7. 0:39where we ended we looked at the payoff
  8. 0:42from a long call option that is if I buy
  9. 0:46a call
  10. 0:47option which has a strike price of
  11. 0:50e then at the expiration date this is my
  12. 0:54payoff where pce is the price of the
  13. 0:57call
  14. 0:58option great
  15. 1:01what if I go short on a call option that
  16. 1:03is what if I sell a call option to
  17. 1:06somebody else let's say to
  18. 1:08you then what is my
  19. 1:11payoff and let's say the strike price of
  20. 1:14the call option is
  21. 1:16e h so there are two
  22. 1:21possibilities
  23. 1:23either the price of the call option uh
  24. 1:26sorry the price of the underlying asset
  25. 1:28at expiration date which is S capital
  26. 1:31this becomes more than the call option
  27. 1:33the more than the strike
  28. 1:35price that is e+ 10 then what will
  29. 1:39happen well I have sold you the call
  30. 1:41option so what will you do now you have
  31. 1:44the right to buy this asset at rupees E
  32. 1:49from me on the expiration
  33. 1:52date okay and I am
  34. 1:54obligated to sell
  35. 1:57you one unit of this asset at rupees e
  36. 2:02on the expiration date but the price of
  37. 2:04the asset at the expiration date is e+
  38. 2:0610 let's say then what what will happen
  39. 2:09I will have to buy the asset from the
  40. 2:11market at e+ 10 and then give it to you
  41. 2:15and you will give me the strike price e
  42. 2:18so I will have a loss what is my loss
  43. 2:22what is my loss here it is
  44. 2:2410 so as the price of the asset goes
  45. 2:28up above the strike price e i the seller
  46. 2:33of the call
  47. 2:34option will start incurring
  48. 2:37losses higher the price of the asset
  49. 2:41higher my losses okay as you can see
  50. 2:44from this graph it is exactly opposite
  51. 2:48when I buy a call option when I buy a
  52. 2:50call option I really want the price of
  53. 2:52the asset to go up when I sell a call
  54. 2:54option my payoff decreases as the price
  55. 2:57of the
  56. 2:58asset goes up price of price of the
  57. 3:01underlying asset goes up of
  58. 3:04course when I sell a call option I also
  59. 3:07get some money because I'm selling it
  60. 3:10for some
  61. 3:12amount so the entire payoff moves up by
  62. 3:16this
  63. 3:18much so if the price is below E then
  64. 3:20what will happen so if St is below E so
  65. 3:24if St is less than e then what will
  66. 3:28happen well then you have the right to
  67. 3:30buy this underlying asset at Price e but
  68. 3:34the price of the underlying asset in the
  69. 3:36market is less than
  70. 3:38e so this right of buying at Price e is
  71. 3:42a useless right and you won't exercise
  72. 3:45this right I on the other hand I'm happy
  73. 3:49why because I will make this profit this
  74. 3:52much profit which is equal to the price
  75. 3:54of the call option you will not exercise
  76. 3:56the option so this is my profit once
  77. 3:59once the price starts going above E I
  78. 4:02start uh my profit starts getting eaten
  79. 4:05up and eventually I run into
  80. 4:08losses okay so this is the
  81. 4:11payoff uh if I if I'm seller of a call
  82. 4:17option
  83. 4:19okay now we'll start talking about
  84. 4:21something
  85. 4:23else consider
  86. 4:26uh again consider the TCS stock option
  87. 4:29and let's say it is it is trading at uh
  88. 4:31price
  89. 4:333416 and let's say tomorrow the election
  90. 4:36results will be declared and I feel uh
  91. 4:39that the TCS price will uh go up to 35
  92. 4:44so now I own a unit of TCS one one stock
  93. 4:48of
  94. 4:50TCS and after the election results I'm
  95. 4:52really hoping that the price of TCS will
  96. 4:55go up to
  97. 4:5835 so will I sell my TCS stock now at
  98. 5:033416 answer is no why should I I'm
  99. 5:06owning it I have it in my
  100. 5:08wallet I'm tempted to wait after the
  101. 5:11election results are
  102. 5:13declared I'm tempted to wait till the
  103. 5:15election results are declared and sell
  104. 5:16it after that so that I can sell it at
  105. 5:2135 but then I'm also
  106. 5:24fearful what is my fear I'm fearing that
  107. 5:28maybe there will be a hung assembly or
  108. 5:29something like that and the price will
  109. 5:31go down to
  110. 5:3333000
  111. 5:35okay so on one hand I'm tempted to wait
  112. 5:38on the other hand I'm fearful that uh
  113. 5:41the price will go down to 33000 which is
  114. 5:44lower than the current
  115. 5:47value okay so should I should I sell it
  116. 5:51now should I wait I'm caught in this
  117. 5:53dilemma so what do I want now what if
  118. 5:57somebody gives me an insurance or right
  119. 5:59which will allow
  120. 6:01me to sell this one unit of TCS at 3416
  121. 6:06which is the current
  122. 6:07price
  123. 6:09tomorrow so now my downside has been
  124. 6:12protected right I can't lose I I can
  125. 6:16today I can sell it for 3416 I'm fearful
  126. 6:19that I won't be able to sell it for 3416
  127. 6:21tomorrow if the price goes down but if
  128. 6:24somebody assures me that hey don't worry
  129. 6:27tomorrow as well you can sell it for 3
  130. 6:2941 6 no matter what then my fear is
  131. 6:33gone if the price goes to 35 fantastic I
  132. 6:37will sell it for
  133. 6:3935 if it goes down to 330 even then I
  134. 6:43can sell it for 3416 because I have this
  135. 6:47insurance okay now this insurance or
  136. 6:51right which allows me to sell one unit
  137. 6:54of TCS at
  138. 6:563416 on 1st of September or tomorrow
  139. 7:00this is called the put
  140. 7:03option
  141. 7:05okay so what was call option call option
  142. 7:09was a right to buy it was the right to
  143. 7:12buy an
  144. 7:14asset at a particular price called the
  145. 7:16strike price on the expiration date a
  146. 7:19put option on the other hand is a right
  147. 7:22to sell an
  148. 7:24asset at a particular price on the
  149. 7:26expiration
  150. 7:28date okay
  151. 7:30and just like in the previous scenario
  152. 7:32somebody who buys the option is said to
  153. 7:36go long on a put option somebody who
  154. 7:38sells the option is say is said to go
  155. 7:40short on a put
  156. 7:42option
  157. 7:45great so this is the formal definition a
  158. 7:47put option is uh denoted by
  159. 7:52P E is the strike price that is the
  160. 7:55amount the price at which I am ensured
  161. 7:59that I can
  162. 8:01sell at the expiration date denoted by
  163. 8:03capital T and S is the underlying
  164. 8:07asset okay
  165. 8:12fantastic now what's the
  166. 8:14payoff let's say I have bought a put
  167. 8:17option then what is my payoff how will
  168. 8:20my payoff look like of course I'm
  169. 8:22ignoring the price of the put option for
  170. 8:24for the time
  171. 8:25being so I have the right to sell one
  172. 8:29one unit of TCS or one unit of an asset
  173. 8:32at e
  174. 8:34Rupees at the expiration date okay fine
  175. 8:40now let's say the price of the asset St
  176. 8:44is less than e let's say it is e minus
  177. 8:505 okay
  178. 8:53then well I have the right to sell it at
  179. 8:56e
  180. 8:57rupees okay so let's let's say you have
  181. 9:01uh I have bought a put option from
  182. 9:04you so I have the right to sell one unit
  183. 9:07of the underlying asset to you at e
  184. 9:10rupees on the expiration date but let's
  185. 9:12say the price of the asset in the market
  186. 9:14is eus
  187. 9:155 so what is my payoff then well I will
  188. 9:19buy the asset from the market at e minus
  189. 9:225 then I will go to you and say hey see
  190. 9:26I have this put option I have the right
  191. 9:28to sell it to you at e rupees and I will
  192. 9:30sell it to you at e rupees you're
  193. 9:32obligated to buy from
  194. 9:33me okay and I will make a payoff of
  195. 9:37five if the price is eus 10 then I will
  196. 9:41buy from the market at eus 10 and sell
  197. 9:43it to you at e rupees again and my
  198. 9:45profit will be 10 so lower the price in
  199. 9:49the market higher my payoff if I am a
  200. 9:51owner of a put option if I bought a put
  201. 9:55option fantastic so lowered the price
  202. 9:58lowered the price higher The
  203. 10:02Profit
  204. 10:04okay great what if the
  205. 10:08uh payoff or sorry the price at price of
  206. 10:11the underlying asset at the expiration
  207. 10:13date what if it goes above e then what's
  208. 10:16going to
  209. 10:18happen well so let's say it becomes e+
  210. 10:2410 so now I have the right to sell one
  211. 10:27unit of this pen to to you at e+ at e
  212. 10:32rupes but in the market it can be sold
  213. 10:35at e+
  214. 10:3710 so this right to sell to you at e
  215. 10:40Rupees is a useless right I might as
  216. 10:43well go to the market and sell this pen
  217. 10:44at e+ 10
  218. 10:46Rupees so which means I will not
  219. 10:49exercise the put
  220. 10:50option and my payoff from the put option
  221. 10:53will be zero if the price is above e so
  222. 10:57this is how the payoff looks like so in
  223. 10:59this Zone the payoff is
  224. 11:04zero of course uh so this is
  225. 11:08when I'm assuming that the put option
  226. 11:10was free I'm not taking into account the
  227. 11:13price of the put option but if you take
  228. 11:15into account the price of the put option
  229. 11:17then long put means I'm buying the put
  230. 11:20so the entire
  231. 11:21payoff uh comes
  232. 11:23down by an amount PPE which is the price
  233. 11:27of the put option
  234. 11:34okay what about the payoff of the seller
  235. 11:36of a put
  236. 11:38option what happens
  237. 11:41then well uh let's say I sell you a put
  238. 11:45option it's exactly the opposite if I
  239. 11:49sell you the put option uh you have the
  240. 11:51right to sell the underlying asset to me
  241. 11:53at
  242. 11:54e if the price of the asset is above e
  243. 11:57then what will happen
  244. 12:00if the price of the asset at the
  245. 12:01expiration date is above e then what
  246. 12:03will happen well you won't exercise the
  247. 12:05put option the payoff is
  248. 12:08zero
  249. 12:09okay so nobody nobody there is no
  250. 12:12transaction
  251. 12:13happening if the price of uh the
  252. 12:16underlying asset at the expiration date
  253. 12:18is less than e let's say it is e eus
  254. 12:225 then what will happen then I will have
  255. 12:26to uh I have I have sold you the put
  256. 12:30right so you have the right to sell it
  257. 12:32to me at e
  258. 12:34rupees so I will have to buy it from you
  259. 12:37at e rupes and sell it in the Market at
  260. 12:40e minus 5 which means I will have a loss
  261. 12:43of 5
  262. 12:44rupes okay so lower the price greater my
  263. 12:49loss so you can see lower the
  264. 12:51price so this is the loss lower the
  265. 12:54price goes greater my
  266. 12:57loss okay
  267. 12:59so that's the payoff of a short put if I
  268. 13:02sell a put that's my
  269. 13:05payoff of course if I sell a put then I
  270. 13:09also get some money UPF front which is
  271. 13:11the price of the put so the entire
  272. 13:14payoff gets scaled up by an amount
  273. 13:17PPE which is the price of the
  274. 13:21put great so we have looked at call
  275. 13:24options and we have looked at put
  276. 13:26options we have looked at the payoff of
  277. 13:28some somebody who goes on goes long on a
  278. 13:30call or long on a put or short on a call
  279. 13:33or short on a
  280. 13:36put now we'll talk about another
  281. 13:38instrument in the financial Market which
  282. 13:40is called shorting an
  283. 13:42asset you can take a look at this video
  284. 13:45and then we'll come
  285. 13:52back so what did you see in the
  286. 13:55video in the video uh
  287. 13:59what uh herid is saying is the
  288. 14:02following what is shorting a
  289. 14:05stock well I don't own a stock so
  290. 14:08shorting a stock basically means selling
  291. 14:10a stock or selling an asset without
  292. 14:14owning
  293. 14:15it how can that happen in the following
  294. 14:21way
  295. 14:22if I so what I'm going to do is the
  296. 14:24following I will just call the
  297. 14:27broker and say
  298. 14:30that sell one unit of TCS
  299. 14:35stock what will the broker do the broker
  300. 14:38will take up a unit of TCS stock and
  301. 14:42sell it in the market and get some money
  302. 14:46and he'll give that money to
  303. 14:47me okay I get some money 100 rupees
  304. 14:50let's
  305. 14:52say now the broker will tell me that
  306. 14:55remember you owe me one unit of TCS
  307. 14:58stock I will say yes yes yes I
  308. 15:00remember so I have taken this 100 rupees
  309. 15:03I've kept it in my wallet and I'm
  310. 15:05waiting now if the price of TCS if it
  311. 15:09goes down to 10 rupees or let's say to
  312. 15:1390 rupees by 10 Rupees let's say so if
  313. 15:16the price of TCS stock goes down to 90
  314. 15:18rupees then what will I do I have 100
  315. 15:22rupees in my wallet which I got from the
  316. 15:23broker I will use 90
  317. 15:26Rupees to buy one unit of the T TCS
  318. 15:29stock and give it back to the broker
  319. 15:32because remember I owe one unit of TCS
  320. 15:34stock I will have to give it to the
  321. 15:36broker he sold it on my
  322. 15:38behalf so I will use the 90 rupes of the
  323. 15:41100 rupees which I have in my wallet to
  324. 15:43buy one unit of the TCS stock and give
  325. 15:46it back to the broker so now I I'm I'm
  326. 15:49clear I don't owe anything to
  327. 15:52anybody but in this entire Transaction
  328. 15:54what am I left with I am left with a
  329. 15:57profit of 10 Rupees
  330. 16:01right I had 100 rupees the broker sold
  331. 16:04one unit of TCS stock gave me 100
  332. 16:07rupees the TCS stock came down to 90
  333. 16:10rupe I bought the TCS stock at 90 rupes
  334. 16:13gave it back to the broker the broker's
  335. 16:15account is settled in the meanwhile I
  336. 16:18just made 90 rupees in between uh 10
  337. 16:21Rupees in between 100us
  338. 16:2390 okay so this is called shorting a
  339. 16:27stock so lower the the price of the
  340. 16:29stock
  341. 16:30becomes higher my
  342. 16:33profit okay so I got 100 rupees from the
  343. 16:36broker by shorting One stock of
  344. 16:39TCS but I had to Reby a stock of TCS
  345. 16:42later on to give it back to the
  346. 16:44broker if the lower the price of TCS
  347. 16:47later on higher my
  348. 16:50profit right so it's a downward sloping
  349. 16:54payoff
  350. 16:57curve and remember we are talking about
  351. 17:00like in call option and put option we
  352. 17:02had expiration date in case of shorting
  353. 17:05we have something called a settlement
  354. 17:07date okay so if the price of TCS is
  355. 17:11lower than 100 rupees on the settlement
  356. 17:13date then or on or before the settlement
  357. 17:17date then I'm going to make profit if it
  358. 17:19is higher then I will run into losses
  359. 17:22because anyway I'll have to buy a stock
  360. 17:24of TCS and give it back to the broker if
  361. 17:27it is at 110 I will have to to buy it at
  362. 17:29110 and give it back to the broker and
  363. 17:31then I will have a loss of 10
  364. 17:34Rupees
  365. 17:36great now let's try to be a little more
  366. 17:39sophisticated let's use we have looked
  367. 17:42at call Port shorting a stock now let's
  368. 17:45try to uh mix them up and create more
  369. 17:48complicated instruments let's start with
  370. 17:50a very easy one shorting with a
  371. 17:54call okay
  372. 17:57great so let's say current currently the
  373. 17:59price of an asset is s
  374. 18:01rupees so I
  375. 18:05uh shot a stock and get S rupes it's a
  376. 18:10downward curve as you can see this
  377. 18:14one but it can go go really down
  378. 18:18right so what I'm doing is as the uh I'm
  379. 18:23buying a call option so as the price of
  380. 18:26the stock goes up on the settlement date
  381. 18:29my payoff will become lower and
  382. 18:32lower and finally my losses will become
  383. 18:34huge so in order to mitigate that what
  384. 18:38am I
  385. 18:38doing I'm buying a call
  386. 18:42option which allows me
  387. 18:45to buy one unit of this underlying asset
  388. 18:49at e rupees and let's say the settlement
  389. 18:52date and the expiration date are
  390. 18:56coinciding okay okay so so what's what's
  391. 18:59happening
  392. 19:01here so as I have shorted the stock the
  393. 19:04payoff keeps coming down as the price
  394. 19:06goes
  395. 19:07up ideally the payoff should have come
  396. 19:10down further as the price gone up but
  397. 19:14since I have the call option what will I
  398. 19:17do if the price goes above
  399. 19:21e it doesn't matter I have the right to
  400. 19:25buy this asset at rupees e since I own
  401. 19:28the call
  402. 19:30option okay remember I'll have to pay
  403. 19:33the broker back one unit of the
  404. 19:34underlying asset and now I have the call
  405. 19:38option which allows me to buy the
  406. 19:40underlying asset at e
  407. 19:43rupees so no matter how much the price
  408. 19:46of the underlying asset goes up my loss
  409. 19:49can't exceed e
  410. 19:51rupees okay not not even EES rather I I
  411. 19:55will definitely be able to buy it at e
  412. 19:57rupes
  413. 19:59right
  414. 20:02fine that's the
  415. 20:07thing fine we have looked at different
  416. 20:10uh financial instruments let's look at
  417. 20:12one particular uh real life situation
  418. 20:17and let's try to understand investing or
  419. 20:19trading in
  420. 20:21tution well this is something which
  421. 20:23happened uh some time
  422. 20:25back which was uh a court case between
  423. 20:29uh
  424. 20:31Amazon and um the future
  425. 20:34group so basically Reliance was
  426. 20:37acquiring the future group and Amazon
  427. 20:41filed a
  428. 20:42case and the case was there uh initially
  429. 20:46uh in the Supreme Court and then in the
  430. 20:48Singapore uh International arbit
  431. 20:50arbitration
  432. 20:52Center so the thing was the
  433. 20:56following if the uh so Amazon was
  434. 20:58against the
  435. 21:01deal so if the Reliance future deal
  436. 21:04happens so let's say you are standing
  437. 21:06and you're reading this in the
  438. 21:08newspaper that a deal is supposed to
  439. 21:10happen between Reliance and
  440. 21:12future Reliance will acquire uh
  441. 21:17future but if uh Amazon manages to win
  442. 21:22the case then the deal won't happen or
  443. 21:24the deal might be delayed
  444. 21:27indefinitely so if the deal happens then
  445. 21:30the Reliance price will go
  446. 21:33up if the deal is
  447. 21:35terminated in the court then Reliance
  448. 21:39will take a beating and the price will
  449. 21:42go down right so let's say you reading
  450. 21:45this in the newspaper you are caught in
  451. 21:47this dilemma you don't know whether the
  452. 21:48price of Reliance will go up or go down
  453. 21:51so I don't really know what's going to
  454. 21:54happen but I know that something will
  455. 21:57happen whichever way the verdict goes
  456. 22:00the price of Reliance stock will either
  457. 22:02go up or go down based on this news
  458. 22:05based on the outcome of this uh court
  459. 22:09case so what should I
  460. 22:11do should I go should I buy a stock of
  461. 22:14Reliance no I'm fearful it might go down
  462. 22:18should I sh a stock of Reliance no I
  463. 22:21don't know if the code verdict is in
  464. 22:24favor of Reliance the stock price will
  465. 22:26go up then I will run into losses
  466. 22:29so what should I
  467. 22:31do right I'm I'm I I know that it can go
  468. 22:35either way and I know that it will go
  469. 22:38either this way or that way so what can
  470. 22:41I do can I still make money in this
  471. 22:43scenario can I have some trading
  472. 22:47strategy okay so let's use the following
  473. 22:51trading strategy which we can use in
  474. 22:52this situation let's see so what am I
  475. 22:55betting on here what am I hoping that
  476. 22:58will
  477. 23:00happen I'm basically betting on
  478. 23:05movement I'm hoping that the price of
  479. 23:08Reliance will surely go up or go down it
  480. 23:12won't stay or hover around where it is
  481. 23:16right now so I'm really hoping for some
  482. 23:20movement right either either up or down
  483. 23:23I don't
  484. 23:24know so I will do the following what do
  485. 23:27I do I will buy a call option and a put
  486. 23:33option which have the same expiration
  487. 23:36date and same strike
  488. 23:38price same expiration date and same
  489. 23:41strike
  490. 23:43price okay this strategy is called a
  491. 23:47straddle
  492. 23:49strategy okay so I'm buying a call
  493. 23:53option and a put option what is the
  494. 23:55underlying asset here the stock of the
  495. 23:59stock of Reliance One stock of Reliance
  496. 24:01that's my underlying
  497. 24:03asset
  498. 24:05okay now if if St that is the price of
  499. 24:10the stock underlying stock underlying
  500. 24:12asset if it is above e
  501. 24:15then which one will I exercise if the
  502. 24:18price of the underlying asset is above
  503. 24:21e the call option gives me the right to
  504. 24:24buy it at
  505. 24:26e so it is a worthwhile right
  506. 24:28and I will exercise the call option will
  507. 24:31I exercise the put option no if the
  508. 24:34price of the asset is above e and I have
  509. 24:37the right to sell it at e then it's a
  510. 24:40useless right because I might as well
  511. 24:42sell it in the Market at a price above e
  512. 24:45so if St is greater than E I will only
  513. 24:49exercise the call option by a symmetric
  514. 24:51argument if STD is less than E I will
  515. 24:54only exercise the put option
  516. 25:00now let's see what is my
  517. 25:02payoff what is my payoff if I buy a call
  518. 25:05and a put of course right now I'm
  519. 25:08ignoring the price of uh the the
  520. 25:12options let's
  521. 25:15see if the price of so what do I have I
  522. 25:20have a put option
  523. 25:23PE and I have a call option
  524. 25:30if the price of the underlying asset
  525. 25:33which is this this is
  526. 25:36St the price of the underlying asset on
  527. 25:39the expiration date if this goes
  528. 25:42above uh capital E what will
  529. 25:46happen well then I will exercise the
  530. 25:49call
  531. 25:50option let's it it becomes uh e+
  532. 25:545 then what will happen I will exercise
  533. 25:57the call option
  534. 26:00I will the Call option gives me the
  535. 26:03right to buy the asset at e
  536. 26:07rupees and then I will sell it off in
  537. 26:09the Market at e plus 5 rupees and make a
  538. 26:11profit of 5
  539. 26:13rupees as the price of the asset goes up
  540. 26:16my payoff goes up so it is this segment
  541. 26:19of the
  542. 26:20line okay so if it is above e in this
  543. 26:23zone I'm exercising the call option
  544. 26:31what if the price goes below E let's say
  545. 26:34it becomes eus
  546. 26:385 then of course I will exercise the put
  547. 26:40option as we saw in the previous
  548. 26:42Slide the put option gives me the right
  549. 26:46to sell the asset at e rupees so what
  550. 26:49will I do I will buy one unit of the
  551. 26:51asset from the market at eus 5
  552. 26:54rupees and then I will use the put
  553. 26:57option and sell the asset ass ET at for
  554. 26:59e rupes and thereby get a payoff of five
  555. 27:03so lower the price higher my profit in
  556. 27:07this segment so here I'm using the put
  557. 27:12option so we
  558. 27:15see higher my deviation from E higher my
  559. 27:21profit if I use the straddle
  560. 27:24strategy okay higher my deviation from E
  561. 27:27higher my
  562. 27:29profit and remember I was betting on
  563. 27:32movement I was hoping that uh the price
  564. 27:35will change and I will get some
  565. 27:39profit of course if we take the price of
  566. 27:42the options into account the entire I
  567. 27:45have bought a put option and a call
  568. 27:46option remember so I've spent some money
  569. 27:49so the entire entire payoff gets uh
  570. 27:52shifted down by an amount PE plus c
  571. 27:58okay so this is what it looks like so if
  572. 28:01e is the strike price which I'm buying
  573. 28:03at let's say this is the this is the
  574. 28:06zone so let's say this is e minus
  575. 28:09Epsilon e plus
  576. 28:13Epsilon so I'm hoping that the change in
  577. 28:16price will be will take the price of the
  578. 28:19Reliance stock above this
  579. 28:22either to the right of this band or to
  580. 28:25the left of this band so I'm hoping for
  581. 28:28for movement so straddle is is a trading
  582. 28:31strategy where you don't know whether a
  583. 28:34particular asset will go up or down but
  584. 28:37you know for sure that they will
  585. 28:39definitely go either significantly up or
  586. 28:42significantly down so here you are
  587. 28:44betting for movement but you don't know
  588. 28:47the direction of the
  589. 28:49movement great that's a
  590. 28:53straddle another uh
  591. 28:58different version if you may call it a
  592. 29:01little change here though is
  593. 29:04strangle here also I'm betting on
  594. 29:07movement but I also have a hunch about
  595. 29:10the
  596. 29:11direction let's see what that
  597. 29:14means so what am I doing here again I'm
  598. 29:17buying a call option and I'm buying a
  599. 29:20put
  600. 29:22option but in this case the strike price
  601. 29:26of the put option is l lesser than
  602. 29:29capitally which is the strike price of
  603. 29:31the call
  604. 29:32option
  605. 29:35okay so uh you can imagine what will be
  606. 29:37the payoff if the price of the
  607. 29:40underlying asset s of capital t is
  608. 29:42greater than capital E then I will
  609. 29:45exercise the call if it is less than
  610. 29:47small E I will exercise the
  611. 29:50put and if it lies between SMY and
  612. 29:52capitally I will not exercise either of
  613. 29:55the
  614. 29:56options if it's it's not clear to you
  615. 29:59pause the video and think about it for
  616. 30:01for a
  617. 30:04minute so this is how the payoff will
  618. 30:07look
  619. 30:10like so I've taken into account so this
  620. 30:13is exactly like straddle but we have a
  621. 30:17uh we have a plateau in between here
  622. 30:21straddle was straddle was sharp v-shaped
  623. 30:24but here we have a steady Zone
  624. 30:29right okay but why is strangle uh when
  625. 30:33is strangle used instead of strle
  626. 30:35straddle let's understand
  627. 30:40this if since the expiration uh sorry
  628. 30:44since the strike price of the put option
  629. 30:46which I'm buying in strangle is lower
  630. 30:49than that of
  631. 30:51straddle the price of the put option
  632. 30:53will also be
  633. 30:54lower see what is put option A put
  634. 30:57option
  635. 30:58is a right to sell an asset at some
  636. 31:03strike
  637. 31:04price so higher that strike price more
  638. 31:08precious that right is and hence higher
  639. 31:11the price of the put
  640. 31:13option right which means that the price
  641. 31:17of the put option in strangle is lower
  642. 31:20than the price of the put option which I
  643. 31:22buy in straddle so the strangle
  644. 31:24portfolio is cheaper than the straddle
  645. 31:26portfolio
  646. 31:28okay but I'm still here as well betting
  647. 31:31on movement if you if you see the uh
  648. 31:35payoff you can see that I really
  649. 31:39want the stock price to go above this
  650. 31:42band either go to the right of this or
  651. 31:44go to the left of
  652. 31:46this
  653. 31:51okay but I'm kind of betting on upward
  654. 31:54movement more let's see how
  655. 31:59assume that the stock is trading at 15
  656. 32:01rupees in
  657. 32:04April now suppose I have a call option I
  658. 32:07bought a call option which has a strike
  659. 32:09price of
  660. 32:1015 and expiration date is
  661. 32:14June and I buy a put option which has a
  662. 32:18strike price of 15 and expiration date
  663. 32:20is June so this is a
  664. 32:23straddle now if I buy 100 sized straddle
  665. 32:26it means what
  666. 32:29it means I'm buying 100 calls and 100
  667. 32:32puts okay now the each call option with
  668. 32:36strike price 15 is worth 2 rupees and
  669. 32:40each put option with a strike price 15
  670. 32:43is worth 1 rupe so what is the price of
  671. 32:45my straddle portfolio it's 300
  672. 32:48rupees okay that's the that's the uh
  673. 32:51amount which I have to spend to buy 100
  674. 32:54calls and 100 puts of this kind or 100
  675. 32:57straddles
  676. 33:00okay and the straddle value will
  677. 33:02increase as the stock moves higher or
  678. 33:06lower but the Prof when will The Profit
  679. 33:08be
  680. 33:10realized so you can imagine
  681. 33:13here so if it is 15 if 15 is my strike
  682. 33:22price and uh so I will have to
  683. 33:26basically make a profit of three to
  684. 33:29break even because one put and one call
  685. 33:32has cost me 3 rupees so I will really
  686. 33:35hope that the price goes above
  687. 33:3918 or below
  688. 33:4212 right either above 18 or below 12
  689. 33:46that's what I'm hoping
  690. 33:47for so I'm hoping for at least a
  691. 33:50movement of three this is my straddle
  692. 33:54scenario and the straddle has no
  693. 33:56directional bias where whether it moves
  694. 33:58by an amount above three in the
  695. 34:00rightward direction or leftward
  696. 34:02Direction I don't care I will make
  697. 34:06profits now in the strangle what I'm
  698. 34:09doing is the
  699. 34:11following I'm buying a call option again
  700. 34:14with a strike price of
  701. 34:1615 but now I'm buying a put
  702. 34:20option with a strike price of 12.5
  703. 34:24instead of
  704. 34:2615 instead of buying a put
  705. 34:30option with a strike price of 15 which
  706. 34:33is what I did in straddle for $1 I'm
  707. 34:36looking to buy a put option with a
  708. 34:38strike price of 12.5 and now the price
  709. 34:41of that particular put option when the
  710. 34:43strike price is
  711. 34:4412.5 the price of that put option
  712. 34:49is25 okay the price of the call option
  713. 34:52with a strike price of 15 was how much
  714. 34:55two that's okay That Remains Two
  715. 34:58then price of every put call pair which
  716. 35:01I have is how much it is 2.25 two for
  717. 35:04the call option .25 for the put option
  718. 35:07if I buy 100 of those then what will I
  719. 35:10have what will be my total portfolio
  720. 35:12price it is
  721. 35:14225 that's my that's the amount I need
  722. 35:16to spend to buy a strangle
  723. 35:19portfolio Okay and which is which is
  724. 35:22significantly less than 300 which is the
  725. 35:25amount which I need to spend to buy a
  726. 35:28straddle
  727. 35:30portfolio
  728. 35:31also since 2.25 is the amount I'm
  729. 35:34spending on one particular unit of
  730. 35:37strangle that is one by a one put and
  731. 35:40one
  732. 35:41call I am hoping for a movement of
  733. 35:442.25 to break even only that much is
  734. 35:47good
  735. 35:48enough
  736. 35:52okay so it's it's a little cheaper than
  737. 35:54straddle that
  738. 35:56way great
  739. 35:59uh I think I will stop
  740. 36:02here and uh in the next lecture we'll
  741. 36:07talk about we'll look into a few more
  742. 36:09interesting uh uh financial instruments
  743. 36:13or or trading
  744. 36:15strategies and we will um also try to
  745. 36:21find out payoff of any particular
  746. 36:24portfolio any complicated portfolio
  747. 36:26which we might
  748. 36:28construct how to how to uh figure out
  749. 36:31the payoff of that we'll look at that in
  750. 36:34the next uh lecture we'll also look at a
  751. 36:39very important
  752. 36:40equality when it comes to pricing
  753. 36:46options but that we'll have to wait for
  754. 36:48that uh in the next lecture see you in
  755. 36:51the next lecture thank you

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