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By Motilal Oswal Financial Services

Option Writing

STRATEGY 1

Writing against Cash / Fut Holding

Sell SBIN 340 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `2.60

Target Level : 0.05

Stop Loss Level : 4.05

Gross Monthly Yield : 1%

ROI : 5.2%

Margin : `1,05,000

Days to Expiry : 25

Writing with Hedging

Leg 1: Sell SBIN 340 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `2.60

Leg 2: Buy SBIN 370 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `0.90

Target Level : 0.05

Stop Loss (Spread) Level : 2.60

Gross Monthly Yield : 0.65%

ROI : 3.50%

Margin : `1,45,000

Days to Expiry : 25

STRATEGY 2
Writing against Cash / Future Holding

Sell MARUTI 7400 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `48.10

Target Level : 0.05

Stop Loss Level : 71.25

Gross Monthly Yield : 0.90%

ROI : 4.35%

Margin : `1,07,000

Days to Expiry : 25

Writing with Hedging

Leg 1: Sell MARUTI 7400 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `48.10

Leg 2: Buy MARUTI 8000 CE 27-FEB-20 AT `10.35

Target Level : 0.05

Stop Loss (Spread) Level : 55

Gross Monthly Yield : 0.60%

ROI : 3.20%

Margin : `1,05,000

Days to Expiry : 25

Pair Trading

STRATEGY 1

Leg 1: BUY HDFCBANK 1 LOT 27-FEB-20 AT

`1,199.55

Leg 2: SELL HDFC 1 LOT 27-FEB-20 AT

`2,275.90

Tenure : 7-8 Days

Target Profit : 5.10%

Stop Loss : 2.50%

Marginq : `2,08,000

This pair has 90% correlation over the last few weeks post its ex-corporate action. Pair (HDFC/HDFCBANK) has trade lot ratio of 0.95 with price ratio of 1.90. Pair ratio may now take a pause, as 1.97-2.0 is upper band of this band as per the statistical data so expecting the ratio to now turn lower towards its half the way of mean which is 1.80.

STRATEGY 2


Leg 1 : BUY BAJFINANCE 1 LOT 27-FEB-20 AT

`4,282 AND 12 SHARES IN CASH

Leg 2 : SELL BAJAJFINSV 1 LOT 27-FEB-20

AT `8,951.70

Tenure : 7-8 Days

Target Profit : 4.30%

Stop Loss : 2.25%

Margin : `4,40,000

This pair has 85% correlation over the last one year. Pair (BAJAJFINSV /BAJFINANCE) has a trade lot ratio of

1.05 with price ratio of 2.10. We are expecting the ratio to narrow down as per its 2SD band with the view to

continue to outperformance of Bajaj Finance.

Source: Economic Times