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Suggestion to recover from a bad naked call
Per Hart's catch, I missed that this call expires in Jan of 2026 so this is an edit: If the expiration was earlier, about the only realistic thing that you could do would be to roll the short call ...
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Suggestion to recover from a bad naked call
One usually takes a loss. You chose to play with options, knowing that the risk existed. All you can do at this point is learn from the experience.
(Options are amplifiers of both gain and loss. Their ...
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Can you effectively reduce the cost of a long call on an index with a synthetic long and married put (e.g. replicate an XSP call using SPX options)?
Your "synthetic synthetic call" is just equivalent to a plain SPX call (at the strike of your long put). It does not succeed in "scaling down" to the equivalent of an XSP call.
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