Join the NASDAQ Community today and get free, instant access to portfolios, stock ratings, real-time alerts, and more! I have discussed here and here how to find option opportunities by looking for stocks with unusually expensive options. A natural question is whether there are opportunities in stocks with options that are unusually cheap. In fact, if we can identify stocks that are at strong demand levels or supply levels and that also have very cheap options, we have the most straightforward and potentially most profitable type of option trade. The process of identifying these opportunities has a set of steps that are a bit different than those for expensive options. Here, rather than selling, we will be buying options. We'll buy calls if we're bullish or puts if we're bearish, though it's more complicated than this. Here's we need to do to take advantage of cheap option opportunities. First, I listed the steps. Then, we'll walk through an example and describe each step. Locate stocks trading unusually low implied volatility IV relative to their own IV history. Low IV means cheap options. Using a daily price chart, determine if we have a good reason to be strongly bullish or strongly bearish on each stock. This will be the case only if the pricing is near within an average day's range of a high-probability turning point - a high-quality supply or demand level. Furthermore, there must be plenty of room for the stock to move after its reversal, enough for at least a 3: Reject all the stocks that fail this test. This will eliminate most of the possibilities. The remaining stocks, if any, are our best opportunities. Identify the stop advanced that we would be using if we were going to trade the stock itself. At what price would we exit the trade if it went against us? Identify the target price for the next hardcover days. At what price would we take our profit and exit the trade if it went our way during that time? On the stock's option chain, locate the nearest monthly expiration date that is hardcover than 90 days away. For that expiration date, find and first in-the-money ITM strike price. If we are bullish and using call options, that is the next strike price below the current stock price. If we are bearish and using put options, it is the next strike price above the current price. Calculate the profit amount with the stock option the target price and IV unchanged 30 days from now. You must use strategies diagramming software for this. Calculate the loss amount with the stock at the stop price and IV unchanged 30 days from now. Reject the trade if the days-out reward-to-risk option is less than 2 to 1. Recalculate the days-out-profit-and-loss amounts and the reward-to-risk ratio assuming volatility IV increases back to its one-year average. Reject the trade if the reward-to-risk ratio is not at least 3: If all still looks good, place the trade. 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The important thing is whether a stock's current implied volatility is low or high for trading stock. Five percent of 40 points is 2 points. I scanned for these types of stocks. As mentioned above, I use a scanner advanced into my trading platform. Trading platforms and standalone products offer options scanners. On August 8, this search turned up 39 stocks. Viewing each stock's chart in turn, I rejected most within a second or two because they clearly were not near any kind of supply or demand zone. One volatility one, though, was Wynn Resorts WYNN. It was in process of failing at a major supply zone. It passed our test for a strong, bearish picture. Our plan would be to buy p ut options, which increase in value as a stock's price goes down. Wynn's price chart is shown below. Click to enlarge 3. If Wynn exceeded that, then our bearish expectations would be shown to be incorrect, and we'd take our loss while it was small. This was the area from which the last major rally was launched. We'd plan to sell the put options on Wynn Resorts reached that point. Wynn had monthly expirations in August 9 days outSeptember 44 days and December days. The shortest expiration over 90 days was December. We want an expiration that will still have a large amount of time to go, at that time in the future when the stock hits our target. That is how we cash in on an increase in IV. A rise in IV increases only the time value portion of the option's value. We can only benefit from that if we sell the options when they still have plenty of time to go. We selected the December expiration date. Below is the option chain for Wynn Resorts. That's the price we'd plan to pay. Calculate the profit amount, with the stock at the target price and IV unchanged 30 days from hardcover. You must use option diagramming software for this details below. The actual IV change could be greater or smaller than that. IV could conceivably even go down. But since Wynn Resorts was at a historic low in IV, we thought an increase was more likely. We need to sell the puts while they still have most of their time value. Now for step 8. Calculate the loss amount, with the stock at the stop price and IV unchanged, 30 days from now. And is the amount of loss we would suffer if we held the puts all the way until expiration and they expired worthless. You can now see clearly why we don't want to hold them that long. There is no "quick and dirty" strategies to do it. We can now calculate our reward to risk ratio assuming unchanged IV. Recalculate the days-out profit and loss amounts, and reward-to-risk ratio, assuming that IV increases back to its one-year average. Note how much that projected increase in IV would help us. This is why we chose puts option were very close to the stock's original price, with a long time to run. In a situation where we expect an increase in IV, those puts will benefit the most. It did, so we did. A week after entering the trade, Wynn Resorts was almost where it had been when we entered. Our exit plans were in place, and all we had to do was to wait for one of our triggers to take us out of the trade. This story by Russ Allen originally appeared on Online Trading Academy in two parts. Volatility here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Pricing read more from Online Trading Academy, see: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles What's a Trade Without a Target? Picking the Top strategies. This article appears in: Most Popular Highest Rated. AMZN Is Up Sharply After Whole Foods Acquisition Snap's share price pricing, trades just above IPO price Airline: EMT Focused On Dying Woman, Not Her Underwear GE Names Russell Stokes President And CEO Of GE Power, Succeeding. View All Highest Rated. Research Brokers before you trade. Visit our Forex Broker Center. 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Trading Options Using Implied Volatility and Standard Deviation
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