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Optionalysis: Lot Sizes Reduced on Oct 31. Prepare To Trade More!

Futures and Options trade in lots, and these lots are going to change soon. Come October 31, and a number of lot size changes will happen, with most contract ...

Premium: Optionalysis: Put-Call Parity and Synthetic Long/Short Positions through Options

You could go “pure” long in a stock in two ways: • Buy the stock, or buy the future • Buy a call and sell a put at the same strike price (a ...

Optionalysis: Reliability of Max Pain on the Day Before Expiry

This is a Capital Mind Premium post (see Subscription options). We speak of option pain for various stocks and how Expiry day changed ...

The VIX Is Close to All Time Lows; But Does That Make Options Worth Buying?

The VIX has touched close to an all time low at 13.07, and at this point options aren’t just cheap, they’re the cheapest they’ve ever been. Since the Vix ...

Optionalysis: MA20 Update: Short Term Weak Reversal Visible

This is a premium post for Capital Mind Premium subscribers. Please check ...

Optionalysis: Why Are We Sounding Bearish? The Chart View.

Blesson asked in the subscriber Google group about why Deepak was sounding bearish in two tweets: Day 1: This also sounds like a good time to buy puts. But ...

Optionalysis: Inter-Exchange Arbitrage

We continue on the Arbitrage series with a post on inter-exchange arb. We have two popular exchanges in the country (NSE and BSE) and given that you can access ...

Optionalysis: The Cash-Future Arb

After Budget 2014, there has been talk of using arbitrage funds instead to get a reasonable post-tax return. How do these funds work? What kinds of arbitrage ...

Optionalysis: Budget Day Option Strategies

Before the Budget madness, let’s take a quick look at option strategies. Strangely, implied volatility is VERY low, with the VIX at 18.18 (election time saw ...

Optionalysis: Are we seeing the first technical sign of a top?

At Capital Mind Premium we believe in looking at “outliers”. Things that are out of the ordinary should make us look up and take notice. We’re seeing ...