What's my max profit, max loss, and breakeven on a protective collar?
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Your Collar's Numbers
Enter your stock, call, and put details and click Calculate to see your defined-risk range on this collar.
How this is calculated
A collar is stock you already own (or are buying), plus a short call sold above the price and a long put bought below the price. It caps your upside and floors your downside at the same time.
Your effective cost basis is the stock price plus the put premium you paid, minus the call premium you received.
Max profit per share is the call strike minus your effective cost basis. Price above the call strike still only pays out to the strike, because your shares get called away.
Max loss per share is your effective cost basis minus the put strike. Price below the put strike is fully protected, because you can exercise the put.
Breakeven is your effective cost basis. Below it, the position shows an unrealized loss until the put's protection floors it at the max loss.
This calculator does not account for early assignment on the short call, dividends, or commissions, and assumes the position is held through expiration.
Risk & liability disclaimer: This calculator applies the standard protective collar formula to the numbers you enter. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee any trading outcome. Options involve substantial risk of loss, and a collar limits but does not eliminate risk, including the risk that a short call is assigned early or that a long put has less time value than expected. Trading Habits is not a broker-dealer or registered investment adviser and is not affiliated with any options exchange or broker. Verify strikes, premiums, and margin requirements with your own broker before placing any trade.
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