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Ratio Spreads
Issued on September 14 2011 par Strategies-Options.com

Ratio Spreads enable to be wrong on an asset direction.
We have seen that ratio spreads are a strategy which enable to benefit of a limited directional movement on an underlying asset.



I - Self Financing

It's obvious that purchasing and buying different strikes on the same maturity provide an easy way to fund a strategy.
Therefore, it's easy to grasp a way in benefiting of self financing strategies. That way, one can be wrong with the direction of a particular asset and keep the net credit of such a strategy.



II - Risks

Ratio spreads are nothing but vertical spread added to a naked position.
The naked position leads the risk perspective.

As far as one sold options in a quantity that overcome bought ones, the risk remains illimited to a large move.



III - Graphs :

3D graphs show the P&L of ratio spreads.

Starting Situation : credit = 2.05€
- Purchasing of 1 100 call at $ 10.82
- Selling 2 110 calls at $ 6.43
3D ratio spread


Starting Situation : debit = 0.78€
- Purchasing of 1 100 put at $ 5.95
- Selling 2 90 puts at $ 2.58
3D ratio spread put




IV - Ratio spreads on the pit :

Ratio spreads for real:






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Previous : Ratio Spreads : A First Attempt

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