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From: Nav Gupta
Sent: 07 23 2014 06:22 PM CET
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Subject: KCP Capita Markets Trade Idea - Extreme demand for S&P Put options
presents very interesting trades
Intended for Non-Advisory Clients
since the Malaysian airline disaster and rising tensions with Russia, the put
skew on S&P equity options has richened.
Investors bought equity puts for protection and dealers who were already short
the put skew had to short cover.
Result - the skew has widened to levels where calls appear really quite
inexpensive to puts.
Trade 1
3mth Expiry, strikes 5% either side of the forward. Buy 3 to 3.25 calls for
every 1 put sold
Trade 2
6mth Expiry, strikes 10% either side of the forward. That ratio becomes 4 to
4.35.
These are big numbers - even if you are slightly bearish on the market there's
always a price at which you'd sell puts to buy calls.
Is 3:1 - 4:1 compelling enough? If on the other hand you're long equities or
bullish this looks way better to me.
I'm not arguing that the market rises or falls, just that you are (overly I
believe) well compensated to take the risk it falls.
Also the options i've priced are around the forward not around spot so we are
looking at the true skew not optics involving spot/forward spread.
Call with any qns or for live pricing
best,
Nay
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Nam Gupta
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Deutsche Bank AG, Filiale London
Deutsche Asset & wealth Nana•ement
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