Neostox Pre-Built Options Strategies

Options Trading Practice with Pre-Built Strategies.

You may believe the market will rise. But should you buy a Call? Build a Bull Call Spread? Use a Bull Put Spread? Or choose another bullish structure?

The same market view can be expressed through very different options strategies — each with its own legs, margin requirement, breakeven, maximum profit and maximum loss. Neostox helps you explore those structures without having to build every strategy from scratch.

Choose your market view. Understand the strategy. Then practice it with virtual money.

Explore Options Strategies
Underlying: NIFTY Market View: Bullish

One Market View

Multiple Possible Strategies

Long Call
Bull Call Spread
Bull Put Spread
Neostox pre-built options strategies interface

Because “I Think the Market Will Go Up” Doesn’t Answer Every Question.

Two traders may both be bullish on the same index and still choose different strategies — because their expectations about movement, risk, premium and structure can differ.

Same Market View

Bullish

Different Questions

  • How much movement do I expect?
  • How much risk can I accept?
  • What is my breakeven?
  • How much margin will the position use?
  • Is the position a Credit or Debit strategy?
  • What is the maximum profit or loss structure?

Different Strategies

Long Call Bull Call Spread Bull Put Spread Call Back Spread and more…

The market view starts the decision. The strategy defines the trade.

What Do You Think the Market Is Likely to Do?

Neostox organizes pre-built options strategies around four broad market views. You select the view. Neostox then shows the strategy structures available for that view.

Pre-built strategies and examples are provided for educational and practice purposes. They are not recommendations to take a particular trade or adopt a particular market view. Options strategies involve different risk, reward and margin characteristics. Review the complete position before practicing or trading any strategy.

You expect the underlying to move higher.

Bull Call Spread Bull Put Spread Call Back Spread Covered Straddle Long Call Long Synthetic Put Write

36 strategy structures. Organized around the market view you want to explore.

You Choose the View. Neostox Builds the Structure.

You do not have to remember every leg, strike and option type required to construct a strategy. Start with a few simple choices. Neostox builds the required option legs for the selected strategy.

  1. UnderlyingChoose an index or stock where derivatives are available.
  2. ExpiryChoose the expiry you want to work with.
  3. Market ViewBullish, Bearish, or Range Bound with bias.
  4. StrategySelect the structure you want to examine.
  5. Option LegsSee Buy/Sell, Call/Put, strike, quantity and margin.
  6. Risk / RewardUnderstand the numbers before you practice.
  7. PracticeExecute with virtual money during market hours.
Neostox strategy builder workflow

Multiple Legs Can Change More Than the Payoff. They Can Change the Margin Too.

Neostox evaluates the strategy as a combined position. When the legs form an applicable hedge structure, the margin requirement is adjusted automatically.

One Short Leg

SELL OPTION

Higher Exposure

Margin Requirement

Complete Hedged Structure

SELL OPTION
PROTECTIVE OPTION

Combined Risk Changes

Adjusted Margin Requirement

The hedge should make sense as part of the strategy first. Margin efficiency is a consequence of the structure — not the reason to take a trade you do not understand.

Start With the Structure. Then Make It Yours.

A pre-built strategy gives you a starting structure. It does not mean you are forced to use it exactly as it appears.

Pre-Built

Original legs

Your Saved Version

Modified legs + updated metrics

  • Modify the Legs — adjust where required and see how the complete position changes.
  • Review the Numbers Again — max profit/loss, breakevens, net premium, risk/reward and margin.
  • Save It for Later — keep a version you want to use again.

Pre-built gives you a starting point. Understanding the trade is still your job.

A Multi-Leg Strategy Should Be Managed as a Strategy.

One leg may be in profit while another is in loss. What often matters is how the complete strategy is performing. Neostox lets you define risk and exit conditions for the strategy as a whole.

Leg 1+₹X
Leg 2-₹Y
Leg 3+₹Z
Strategy P&L
Strategy Target Strategy Stop-Loss

Illustrative values only — for explaining combined strategy P&L.

Don’t judge a multi-leg strategy by one leg alone.

ISO and COMB Execution

Keep Strategies Separate — or Let Them Interact With Your Other Positions.

ISO — Isolated Mode

Practice Each Strategy on Its Own.

When a strategy is executed in ISO Mode, its positions stay isolated from other active trades and strategies — useful when you want to test several strategies at the same time.

ISO Mode asks: “How is this strategy performing on its own?”

COMB — Combined Mode

Practice How Positions Interact in One Trading Account.

In COMB Mode, the new strategy can interact with trades that are already active. If matching or related positions already exist, the new orders can affect the overall position.

COMB Mode asks: “What is my overall position after this strategy is added?”

Quick FAQ

Options Strategy Questions

They are ready-to-build options strategy structures organized around different market views. You select the underlying, expiry and market sentiment, then choose the strategy you want to explore. Neostox creates the required legs for that structure.

Neostox currently provides 36 strategy structures across four broad market views: Bullish, Bearish, Range Bound — Bullish Bias and Range Bound — Bearish Bias.

No. You choose your own market view. Neostox then helps you explore strategy structures associated with that view.

No. Neostox displays the available pre-built strategies for the market sentiment you selected. You decide which strategy you want to study and practice.

Yes. You can modify the strategy and review how the updated structure affects its legs, metrics and margin. You can also save a modified strategy for later use.

Depending on the strategy, Neostox shows information including option legs, maximum profit, maximum loss, breakeven(s), net premium, risk/reward and margin requirement.

Yes. Where the strategy contains applicable hedged positions, Neostox calculates the margin requirement based on the combined structure.

Yes. The strategy can be managed using a strategy-level target and stop-loss.

ISO, or Isolated Mode, keeps the strategy independent from other active positions. It is especially useful when you want to practice multiple strategies at the same time and evaluate each one separately.

COMB, or Combined Mode, allows the strategy’s trades to interact with existing active positions. This lets you practice the effect of adding the strategy to the overall account position.

Market View → Strategy → Practice

Don’t Make Your First Attempt at a Multi-Leg Strategy With Real Money.

Choose your view. Understand the legs. Look at the risk, reward, breakeven and margin. Manage the complete strategy. Then see how it behaves with virtual money.

Practice Options Strategies on Neostox