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Option Payoff Diagrams

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by Russ Allen, Online Trading Academy Instructor

It has been a while since I wrote about option payoff diagrams. If you are not familiar with these, it is a good idea to learn about them. They allow us to make good estimates of how our option trades will do under varied conditions. Being able to do this will give us a big leg up on the option trading competition.

The best way to describe an option payoff diagram is through an example. First, we will look at the price chart of a stock. As of January 22, 2015, the stock chart for Alibaba Group looked like this:

BABA1

The stock had been in a prolonged downtrend. It was currently rallying up toward a level of supply at around $106-108. It looked like a good bet to fail at that level and make another down leg. If the downtrend did continue, then it should take the stock down past its earlier low below $96. Looking at the last time that BABA made this trip from $106 to $96, which took 16 calendar days, we reckoned that this trip could happen in three weeks or less.

The options for this stock were selling relatively cheaply. The volatility level that option traders were paying for (called implied volatility, which is calculated based on option prices) was at the rate of 35% annually. This was in the context of a 12-month range for volatility between 33% and 47%. If the stock were to drop, then that implied volatility level could be expected to increase back toward the median level of 40%. Option traders generally get more fearful and more willing to pay high prices for puts when a stock falls.

In a case like this, where we are bearish on the stock and also believe that implied volatility is likely to rise, we want to buy put options. This will be profitable if the stock does go down since put prices move in the opposite direction from the stock price. And, if the level of implied volatility for a stock rises, as we expected it to do here, then all of that stock’s options will inflate, separately from the effect of the price of the stock itself.

In this case, we chose to investigate the put options at the $105 strike price, expiring in April of 2015, 84 days out. We would plan to buy those puts once BABA rallied up into $106, just inside our supply zone. We would then plan to sell the puts thereafter and take our profit, when and if BABA dropped down to our target at $96. But if the stock went up (the wrong way for us on this trade), we would conclude that we were wrong, cut our losses and sell the puts, if and when BABA rose past $108.

The next step was to create an option payoff graph for this position. This graph would tell us:

  • What the estimated price of that put would be when BABA went up by $2.00 into our entry zone.
  • What its estimated price would be when BABA dropped to our target.
  • And what its price would be if BABA rallied past our stop-loss price of $108.

With these three numbers in hand, we could calculate our estimated profit if successful and our estimated loss if the trade went wrong. This in turn would let us figure our reward-to-risk ratio. If that ratio were large enough, then it would be a good trade.

Here is what the option payoff graph looked like:

BABA PG2

The graph plots theoretical profit/loss on the vertical axis vs. stock price on the horizontal axis. Each of the three lines on the graph is drawn as of a specific date. This is necessary because the price of an option goes down a little every day even if the stock does not move. With every passing day there is less time for the stock to move in a way that is favorable for that option. This effect is called time decay. Whenever we own an option we are in a race against time. The stock must move in our direction (down in this case) fast enough to more than offset the drop in the option’s value due to time decay. Time decay starts out slowly and then accelerates as expiration approaches. It is very fast in the last two months of an option’s life so we never want to hold them during that time.

The green straight line on the graph shows what the profit or loss would be for any stock price on expiration day, 84 days away. This line had no relevance for us. We would plan to exit this trade after no more than three weeks, win or lose. In this way we would stop the time decay clock before it really got revved up.

The blue curved line, labeled Plot 2, shows what our P/L would be as of today. The put’s value would change instantaneously as the stock moved, so any drop in the stock would result in an immediate increase in the value of our puts; any rise in the stock would result in a drop in the put’s value.

The magenta curved line shows theoretical P/L on a date that we chose that was three weeks in the future. This was the time we allowed for this trade to work.

We inserted price markers at three significant price levels. These are shown as vertical lines at these prices:

  • $106.00, the price of BABA at which we would enter this trade
  • $108.00, the price of BABA at which we would take our losses and exit
  • $96.00, our price target for BABA

When we insert price markers the table shown below the graph is created. This table shows, among other things, what the value of the option would be if BABA were at the price designated by the marker. That is shown by the Value column in the table. It shows that:

If BABA were to reach our $106.00 entry price, the value of the option would be $603.93. Thus we would not be buying the option at its current level of $707.50, but at that lower price.

If BABA dropped to our $96 target three weeks from now, the value of the option would be $1104.79. Subtracting our cost of $603.93, that would work out to a profit of $500.76.

And if BABA rose to our $108 stop-loss price, the value of the option would be $437.53. Subtracting this from our cost of $603.93, we would have a loss of $166.40.

So, a potential profit of $500.76 vs. a potential loss of $166.40. This looked like a good trade, one well worth taking.

The payoff graph and its associated calculations are absolutely necessary to figure what the price of an option will be at some date in the future. Without that information we are “out of the picture.”

I hope this demonstration of the use of the payoff graph has been informative. We will develop it further in future articles. Interpreting the graph takes skills which are taught in our Professional Options Trader course. Call your nearest center for details.

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