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Picturing Option Profits to Make Money in the Stock Market – Part 5

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by Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructor

My recent articles have been about using the option payoff diagram as an analysis tool. In the first four installments (part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4) we looked at an example of a covered call position on Apple stock. Today we’ll move on to a different kind of position whose payoff chart has some different characteristics.

For comparison, here’s the last diagram from last week:

AAPLCC091001
Figure 1 – Covered call position. Long 100 shares AAPL at $102.39, short 1 Sep 105 call at $1.41.

This covered call was a bullish position, with a maximum profit of $402. This maximum profit would occur if AAPL were to be at any price above the $105 strike at the September expiration. If Apple were to remain unchanged at its present price of $101.58 until then, the covered call would make $.60 per share, as follows:

Apple purchase price $102.39

Ending Apple price 101.58

Loss on Apple stock ($ .81)

Gain on Apple 105 call (original sale price) 1.41

Net Gain (per share) $ .60

By selling the 105 call for $1.41, we lowered out break-even price by that amount. So even though the price of our stock went down, the trade still showed a profit overall.

Okay, so much for the covered call. Here is Apple’s price chart as it looked after the close on September 17:

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Figure 2 – Apple daily chart

Since we started with a bullish trade, let’s assume that we are still bullish, for which a case can be made. There are plenty of bullish option strategies to pick from. One of those a vertical call spread. This has some similarity to the covered call: It makes money if the stock goes up, and loses if it goes down more than a little. But there are also differences. The payoff diagram helps highlight both the similarities and the differences. Let’s check it out.

Since at this point the September options were just about to expire, we looked out another month to the October options. On this day we could have bought the October 95 calls for $7.20. We could have sold the October 105 calls for $1.25. Our net out-of pocket cost for the spread would be $7.20 – $1.25, or $5.95 per share ($595 per contract). Here is the diagram:

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Figure 3 – Apple Vertical Call Spread. Long 1 October 95 call, short 1 October 105 call

Comparing this diagram to the covered call diagram in Figure 1, we can see that part of it is quite similar. Both diagrams are pretty much the same at stock prices of $95 and higher. Here are comparisons at selected prices:

Position Comparison – Covered Call vs Vertical Spread
Profit or Loss at Expiration
Vertical
Stock Price Covered Call Call Spread
0-10098-595
80-2098-595
90-1098-595
95-598-595
100-98-95
105402405
110402405
115402405
Capital required10098 595

From the above table, we can see that the two positions would have almost identical results at any stock price above $95.

But if Apple were to take a big drop, the vertical spread would lose less. In the worst possible case, were Apple to become completely worthless, the difference would be very large. The covered call position would lose $10,098 in that case. By owning the Apple stock, we would have lost the entire value of it. This loss would be reduced a little by the call premium received. But if Apple fell far enough, the covered call position could still lose a very substantial amount.

The vertical call spread, by contrast would do much less badly in the event of a disaster. In that position, we would not own the Apple stock at all. Instead, we would just own a call option that gave us the right to buy the stock at $95. That call option would have cost us $720 for the 100-share contract, and we would lose all of that; but we would have in turn sold the $105 call to someone else. The sale of that $105 strike call option would have brought in $125, which we would get to keep. So our overall loss would be at most the $595 net of the two, even if Apple did become completely worthless.

If we know how to read the payoff diagrams, they tell this whole story quickly and graphically. We can see the similarities above $95. We can also clearly see that the P/L line in Figure 1 goes off the chart downward to the left (the sign of an unlimited-risk position) while the spread diagram in figure 3 levels out below a certain price (sign of a limited-risk position).

Where the spread chart levels out below a stock price of $95, we can see that the maximum loss is $595, and no worse. Note the last line in the comparison table: for each position, the capital required would be equal to the maximum loss: $10,098 for the covered call vs only $595 for the vertical spread. The covered call requires over 15 times as much capital to be tied up to make the same maximum profit, if we pay for the stock in full. In a margin account we could do the covered call for about half of that, but it is still a much larger amount. And we could get a margin call if Apple fell far enough. That could not happen with the spread.

Given a choice between these two positions, why would anyone choose the covered call? Why risk over $10,000 when $600 would seem to do the same job?

That’s a good question, and one that we might not have known to ask if the payoff diagrams didn’t put it in our face.

Before we even had the diagrams to compare, of course, we had to know that such positions existed and could be compared. That’s where a proper education like that offered in our classes comes in.

For comments or questions on this article, contact me at [email protected].

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