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Looking for feedback on direction neutral LEAPS collar strategy

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Jul 17, 2026 · 01:46

The general idea is an advanced collar composed of:

1. Buy a deep itm LEAPS call (replacing outright owning 100 shares)
2. Sell a call option
3. Buy a put option

For example:
SMCI is trading around **$24.61**.

* Buy $13C @ **13.23**
* Sell $26C @ **5.90**
* Buy $20P @ **3.33**

Net debit = **10.66** ($1,066 per contract). Payoff looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/l3koatiz2pdh1.png?width=1227&format=png&auto=webp&s=eaed559cfcf5ddfd636823491efc362bd215c0b3

Seems like a pretty decent risk/reward. Am I missing something, is there a better way to go about this?