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Strangles and Straddles Pop Up in Mexico ETF

  Today’s tickers: EWW, JNPR, SLXP & HNZ EWW  - MSCI Mexico Investible Market Index Fund –  Large prints in call and put options on the Mexico ETF caught our eye this morning with shares in the EWW, an exchange-traded fund designed to correspond to the price and yield performance of publicly traded securities in the aggregate in the Mexican market, trading 0.55% lower on the session at $61.92 as of 12:30pm in New York. It looks like one or more big options traders sold a straddle in the front month and initiated a short strangle in the March contract. The straddle-strategist looked to the February $62 strike to sell 15,000 calls for a premium of $1.13 each, and sold the same number of in-the-money puts at that strike for a premium of $1.43 apiece. Gross premium pocketed on the transaction amounts to $2.56 per contract. The investor keeps the full amount of premium received as long as shares settle at $62.00 and both the call and put options expire worthless at expiration. Some portion of premium is safe in the investor’s wallet as long as shares in the EWW do not stray too far above or below the $62.00 level. But, the short stance in both call and put options at that strike expose the trader to losses in the event that shares rally above the upper breakeven price of $64.56, or slip beneath the lower breakeven point at $59.44, before the options expire next month. In longer-dated options, a sizeable 7,000-lot strangle involving March $61 strike puts and March $63 strike calls was sold for a gross premium of $3.16 per contract. The investor responsible for the strangle walks away with the full amount of premium pocketed on the transaction if shares in the EWW trade within the boundaries of the strike prices described through expiration day in March. Premium received erodes down to zero and gives way to losses should shares in the ETF exceed the upper breakeven price of $66.16, or if shares trade below the lower breakeven point at $57.84, ahead of expiration in a couple of months time. Strangle and straddle sellers may benefit from subsiding levels of implied volatility as well as…
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