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Feb 22 5 tweets 1 min read
HIGH VOLATILITY SCENARIOS

Volatility can rise in different ways. Below are few scenarios which i remain mindful of during market.

1) Small delta move, rise in IV

This is not usually a dangerous scenario because you have received more premiums, though MTM is momentarily -ve.

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2) High delta move, rise in IV

Major damage happens in such scenario in non-directional & the loss also becomes irrecoverable. Usually this scenario happens in a persistent low realisation environment where adjustment cost is high.

Good opportunities come after this move.

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3) High delta move, IV remains stagnant/less decay

This is a very dangerous scenario as due to high index moves the adjustment cost has increased but because IV didn't rise, there's no addition to the premiums you've pocketed.

Gap openings occur usually after such scenarios.

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Because option premiums are affected by both delta & IV, it becomes very important to know the behaviour of them together. This can help us decide whether to trade in directional or non-directional strategies or avoid them altogether.

Clarity comes when you practice it everyday.

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Nov 28, 2021
CHRONOLOGY of most used option strategies by me over the years:

2009: Strangle, Long Strangle
Initially had the belief that can play volatility both sides

2010: Strangle, Straddle
Used to convert positional strangles to straddles near expiries

2011: Calendar Spreads, Straddle
2012: Calendar Spreads, Straddle
Nifty current & next month were the only liquid options for Calendar

2013: Calendar Spreads, Butterfly, Straddle

2014: Diagonal Spreads, Ironfly

2015: Diagonal Spreads, Ratios, Straddle

(Started learning greeks mainly how to maintain delta)
2016: Ratios, Diagonal Spreads

2017: Gut spreads (inverted strangle), Diagonal Spreads, Straddle

Gut spreads because of added STT advantage that time over normal strangle. Also started with Banknifty weekly.

2018: Gut spreads, Butterfly, Ratios

2019: Ratios, Ironfly, Straddle
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Nov 13, 2021
Option traders find a strategy & backtest it for 10+ years to see how it performed through various combinations of entry, exits, SLs.

One has to understand that market regimes keep changing after 3-4 years.

What worked in 2017 doesn't work with same effectiveness in 2021.

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Looking back i was a completely different trader in 2008 to 2015 to now. Ofcourse one keeps improving his skills but it also happens because markets keep evolving.

Whatever strategy works for a particular time period loses it's edge as more people start pouring into it.

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Therefore one needs to keep reinventing himself each time a regime changes. You could do very well in one period but fail miserably in another, thus not being able to sustain in the longrun.

This is primarily because one lacks understanding of basic structures of a strategy.

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Oct 30, 2021
Nifty or Banknifty for option selling? 🧵

There are times when i have traded exclusively in bnf for atleast a couple of yrs, when the weeklies got introduced.

Stopped trading in it for an yr when nf weekly got introduced & bnf started having price freeze issues on expiry days.
Idea has always been to master just one index.

Before the introduction of bnf weeklies, there was no other choice than nf monthly options. Bnf monthly didn't have good liquidity as compared to nf at that time.

Even next month nf options had better liquidity than bnf options.
But now the liquidity is not an issue in any of the index. Option prices don't freeze in bnf anymore.

Currently I'm flexible enough to trade in both, many a times switching from one to another in intraday itself.

Have also tried cross hedging them, but the results were varied.
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Aug 7, 2021
SURVIVORSHIP BIAS

Survivorship bias is the tendency to analyze the strategies that performed exceptionally well and ignore all those that didn’t reach our criteria. We have an inclination towards focusing on the survivors, even if they survived out of luck rather than viability.
So basically we are testing our ideas on an incomplete data. The missing data may conceal losing trades or winning trades, causing us to deploy a strategy which we shouldn't or vice versa. Backtest results with this bias will not represent the true picture.
So if we have a backtested strategy with SL on a 5 min time frame (or even 1 min for that matter), it may give a totally different outlook to the actual result. The period in between which is not taken into account can give vicious price movement hitting the SL multiple times.
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Jul 17, 2021
FIRST ACCOUNT OF OPTIONS

We have this perception that Options are relatively new trading instruments, but they actually go back to the times before Christ was born. Getting to know the origins of this fascinating trading instrument can help us appreciate the depth of it.

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The very first account of options was mentioned in Aristotle's book named "Politics", published in 332 B.C. That's how far back humans have used the concept of buying the rights to an asset without necessarily buying the asset itself.

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Aristotle mentioned a man named Thales of Miletus who was a great astronomer, philosopher and mathematician. Thales was one of the seven sages of ancient greece. By observing the stars and weather patterns, he predicted a huge olive harvest in the year that follows.

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Jun 18, 2021
A THREAD

Topic: HOW TO TRADE IN RISING PREMIUMS SCENARIO

Option sellers specially Straddle sellers feel that rising premiums give them excellent opportunity to make easy money. So what they are seeing is the theta aspect of options & ignoring the delta/gamma/vega forces.

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With rising premiums come high delta moves. There is a reason why premiums are all increasing up in the first place. High uncertainty & fear is what's controlling the markets during such times. So a volatile 200 point move in nifty is always on the cards.

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Adjusting during such delta moves involves high slippages. Such costs go in our system & are irrecoverable. So if the ATM straddle is around 400 & after 200 point downmove, the next straddle is at 450 & the loss is not just 50points but compounded much more.

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