Stuck in a trade, any help welcome

Quote from marinemonk:

I trade index options on the Indian CNX Nifty Index (Bloomberg NIFTY:IND). Two weeks ago, with the Index at around 5300, I had sold 5800 calls expiring on the 26th of September. I did not sell the corresponding puts immediately as the market had run up over the past two days and I thought I could get a better rate if I waited. Since then, the market has run up some 11% and is trading at 5900. Two days ago, at around 5750, I bought back the 5800 September calls and sold the same number of 6000 October calls (expiring 31st October). Since then the price of the October calls has almost doubled and I'm staring at a big hole.

Would appreciate any ideas on how to get myself out of this mess
:( :confused:

Losses are a part of trading...if you cannot accept this then don't pull the trigger. Learn to take a loss and move on.
 
Quote from luisHK:

I suspect more Maverick lol !

OP you can also wait to expiration if you have enough funds, this year has been quite ugly for call sellers, as you've noticed.

Yea...this has been discussed to deaf already. Selling premium is like averaging down...you will win 90% of the time until that 10% wipes you out.
 
sell short or put is the most stupid thing to do!

there is limited gain, but unlimited loss. most people would be instutions to do that, since they are not naked to short, they have balls (lot of inventory)to cover their ass hole

a sure way to lose more than you think.

close out immeadiately.

you are playing fire.
 
Quote from trader198:

sell short or put is the most stupid thing to do!

there is limited gain, but unlimited loss. most people would be instutions to do that, since they are not naked to short, they have balls (lot of inventory)to cover their ass hole

a sure way to lose more than you think.

close out immeadiately.

you are playing fire.

it is not an unlimited loss since you will receive a margin call.
it is also true of short sales of stocks.

best strategy, as previously mentioned, is to close the position.
 
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