Hi Dan thanks for reply.I still have following queries:
1.I was talking about therotical price shown by option calculator of option price.com.When should be bought? Is it when therotical price is less than actual price?
2.In option oracle we can see IV and HV.When should be a call or put bought? Is it when IV is less than HV? But actually I never seen that IV is less than HV.
3.In option oracle there is volatility cone.How to use that? Is that one should choose call or put closer to mean deviation line?
Hi hawaisanjay
By the way, happy Diwali and all the best in your future.
Now to your post. I do not know, how much knowledge you have in option trading. Is it possible for you to give some more lights on that ?
- The first question is already answered with my comments about the IV. IV and time are the main reasons, when there is a miss balancing between theoretical price and market price. There is always a reason, why there is a miss balance and you have to recognize this reason and not only one fact, that the th price is may lower or to high compare to the market price.
In any of your personal decision processes to buy or sell an option, you must include different facts and not only one. You have to make a whole picture of the situation. If you now in this process come to the point, that you want to buy a certain option, because of the fact that the price of the option has a miss balance to the market price, it has to be in relation to this whole picture and not only on this one specific fact. If the th price of the option is less than the market price, it may is a sign to buy, when it stands in relation to the whole picture ! Clear ?
- Now to your second question : Here again. Your decision process must be attached to the whole picture and not only on this one fact, that IV may is higher or lower than HV and market may turns that way and now it is better to buy a put and not a call.
- Third question : I am not clear about what you mean with that. As I do not use this software, I may would give a wrong answer. In my software, I use it to change the volatility and to see, how my analyze picture is changing. It helps me to see changes on the break even or when I fall under the zero line, which is always risky.
Finally : I will give here an example and you can train your self with a decision making process.
Example : Today is Friday. Market stays in a range from 100 to 120 since four weeks. It usually took the market nine days to move from support to resistance, as the IV is less than HV. We see, that the call 125 is slightly undervalued and has a rest live of 10 days. Market is at the moment again by support of 100 and there is no sign of any fundamental or market specific data, which could have a bigger impact in to the market for the next few day.
A : Would you now buy this call, because of its miss balance between the th price and the market price ?
B : Would you may even buy a put, because of the low IV ?
Post your answer, if you want.
Take care
DanPickUp