Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Natural gas: Great UNG opportunities for January

A quick look at the natural gas ETF reveals interesting possibilities. UNG is trading at $5.71. These are the January 6 straddles:

Stock:UNGCurrent price:$5.71
Call Strike:$6Call Premium:$0.16
Put Strike:$6Put Premium:$0.44
Number of calls:63Number of puts:23
Call$ invested:$1008.00Put$ invested:$1012.00
Straddle Cost:$0.60Dollar Cost:$2020.00
Comments:
Max move req. to upside:10.69%Max move req. to downside:-10.30%

So a move of about 10% will make the position profitable.

Computed with StraddlesCalc.

This is not advice, please do your own due diligence.

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