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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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