Special Offer: Make money on the short side of the market with put options.
In this trade, the put options act as short-term insurance for the long stock position.
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Other put options with large open interest include those at 4800 and 4900 strike prices.
Meanwhile, June contract put options provided the medium for a different type of bullish play today.
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He used put options, which give investors the right to sell stock at certain price.
Front month put positioning contrasts with April expiry activity in far out-of-the-money put options.
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Typically, put options are used to bet on a downside move in the underlying shares.
Some reports said there were heavy put options purchases seen in the gold futures market Tuesday.
Approximately 4.1 put options are changing hands on HSBC for each single call option in action today.
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Sellers of the put options may be ditching downside protection or initiating bullish stances on the stock.
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Put options, which give holders the right to sell stock at a prearranged price, are complicated enough.
The ISE Index shows 230 calls purchased for every 100 Put options over the last two weeks.
Haugh, the money manager at PTI, recommends put options on the iShares fund that holds long Treasury bonds.
Premium on the put options may continue to climb if shares in CROX extend losses through November expiration.
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Other strategists displayed optimism on the gaming stock by selling in- and out-of-the-money put options expiring in August.
But only a limited number of bears in options traders on Starbucks got it right with put options.
To hedge against a resurgence in inflation, buy gold, buy put options on bonds or take out a mortgage.
Investors expecting the price of the underlying to continue to pull back snapped up put options across multiple expiries.
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Finally, traders snapping up July expiry put options this morning may be long the stock and protecting their gains.
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The ISE Sentiment Index is a ratio of call options to put options.
Shorting a stock or buying put options are two ways for investors to profit when a stock falls in price.
There were rumors in the market that on Tuesday a large number of put options were purchased on gold futures.
At last check, more than 210, 700 calls had changed hands on the equity, versus a mere 17, 900 put options.
Put options in the front month are most active, but it appears much of the volume was generated by sellers.
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While this is true, put options can also provide protection against additional declines in stocks that the put buyer owns.
He suggests either moving into cash and bonds or, for more active traders, tightening stop limits and using put options.
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