The fidelity of teleportation of continuous quantum variables can be improved by tuning the local displacement gain. We investigate the optimization of the fidelity for the teleportation of Schrodinger cat states, and of coherent states. It is found that the gain corresponding to the maximum fidelity is not equal to one for the two input states in the case of the small squeezing degree of the entanglement resource, while unity displacement gain is the best choice for teleporting arbitrary quantum states in the case of large squeezing.