{"id":262805,"date":"2012-12-28T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=262805"},"modified":"2012-12-28T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:38:00","slug":"algorithms-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/12\/28\/algorithms-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms At Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few weeks have been brutal to cash-only equity investors. The NIFTY has gone nowhere even while swinging wildly on a daily basis. Is there a way to turn a profit given what has been going on?<\/p>\n<p>Yes! With the help of option strategies it is possible to profit from stocks you expect to go side-ways. Here\u2019s what we did.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ACC technical analysis chart\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/StockDive.aspx?TICKER=ACC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 10px auto;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ACC technical analysis chart\" src=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/oPTION-EXPIRY.png\" width=\"747\" height=\"577\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Algorithmic Option Strategy Ideas\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/08\/21\/algorithmic-option-strategy-ideas\/\">StockViz Option Ideas<\/a> drew our attention to the ACC <a title=\"StockViz Option Strategies\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/07\/07\/what-is-your-strategy\/\">Long Call Butterfly<\/a> around the 10th of December. The stock was under a pennant formation, and was on a decline from its 5 day high of Rs. 1445. With Bollinger bands enveloping 1450 and 1360 levels, there was a strong possibility that that stock was going to be range-bound for a bit. <\/p>\n<p>We entered a <strong>long call butterfly<\/strong> trade for December expiry. With an outlay of Rs. 26,750 we bought 5 contracts (market lot of 250). <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ACC long call butterfly trade\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/StockDive.aspx?TICKER=ACC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 10px auto;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ACC long call butterfly trade P&amp;L\" src=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/ACC-pL.png\" width=\"808\" height=\"143\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The payoff chart for our butterfly looked something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ACC long call butterfly payoff\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/StockDive.aspx?TICKER=ACC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 10px auto;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ACC long call butterfly payoff\" src=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/ACC-payoff.png\" width=\"552\" height=\"413\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With ACC ending at Rs. 1402 at option expiry, the position made us Rs. 9,950 (38%) profit in just 17 days even as equity holders sucked wind. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what your New Year\u2019s resolution should be:<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/KEEP-CALM-trade-options.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 10px auto;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"KEEP CALM trade options\" src=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/KEEP-CALM-trade-options_thumb.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"height:200px;border-bottom: grey 1px solid;border-left: grey 1px solid;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 10px;width: 100%;padding-right: 0px;border-top: grey 1px solid;border-right: grey 1px solid;padding-top: 0px\" class=\"roundedCornerSmall\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 70px;float: left\"><a style=\"font-family: segoe ui; color: black; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 600\" href=\"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2012\/11\/29\/the-stockviz-demat-account-2\/\">Open a StockViz Demat Account today!<\/a> <\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"918026650232\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px\" alt=\"call us qr code\" src=\"http:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/web-static\/QR_CODE_DIRECT_CALL_634909979709728491.png\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[stockquote]ACC[\/stockquote] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few weeks have been brutal to cash-only equity investors. The NIFTY has gone nowhere even while swinging wildly on a daily basis. Is there a way to turn a profit given what has been going on? Yes! With the help of option strategies it is possible to profit from stocks you expect to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[516,1200],"class_list":["post-262805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-money","tag-acc","tag-options","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}