Hi, I'm interested in buying a bull call spread for NVDA. It's the Oct 15 $222.50/$225. Current price of NVDA is $223.85. According to Options Profit Cacluator, the max profit is $125 and the max risk is $125. I won't make the full $125 until October 15 (at expiration). Is this accurate? If the price of NVDA goes to $225, I thought I could make the full profit even early on. Can you please help me? Thanks
The short calls have value - you will never get the theoretical maximum profit. You are better off buying the $222.50 calls only.
For #1, that spread will return max profit at expiration if the price is above 225; the short call's value will be at zero. Never mind that it's generally not a good idea to hold till expiration... For #2, I'm not sure why you'd say that. Spreads are far more efficient than just buying calls; the cost of the latter moves the break-even significantly higher than the cost of the spread, so it takes that much bigger of a move for it to start paying off. For the OP: Assuming you buy it for 125 at the open tomorrow, and the price immediately goes to 225, you'll make about... 0.03/share, or $3 total. That's roughly the price change between those two options for a 1-day/$1.10 change in the underlying.
yes. It’s accurate. who would buy your callspread for 2.5 at which price they would have NO Chance to profit and only a chance to lose. That’s why you can’t earn the max before expiration.