instructions:

You are going to apply a very popular investment strategy with options called a straddle. Basically, you buy a call option and a put option for the same stock and the same maturity that are as close as possible to being at the money (stock and strike price very close to each other). First, use the information given in the spreadsheet to create the payoffs in dollars. Second, go out and choose a stock of your choice that has options traded on it and replicate a straddle strategy with real data. Yahoo Finance has easily accessible option data for stocks and can be viewed in straddle view.

Q. What conclusions can you draw from this type of strategy in terms of upside and downside as well as when do you gain and when do you lose?

GIVEN
Stock Price	25.27
Strike Price	25.00
Call Price	1.40
Put Price	0.90
CALCULATIONS
Stock Price	Call Payoff	Put Payoff	Total Payoff
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