Put Option Strategies for Smarter Trading: How to Protect and Build Capital in Turbulent Markets
Options traders most commonly focus on calls: the right to purchase stock if prices rise. The 2008 stock marketcrash demonstrated just how misguided this singular emphasis can be:thousands of investors suffered massive losses they could have avoidedthrough the careful, defensive use of strategies based on puts insteadof calls. Now, for the first time, there's a comprehensive, balancedguide to using puts to create profits, protect stock positions, andhedge against all types of risk. Renowned expert Michael C. Thomsett,author of the #1 options best-seller Getting Started in Options,introduces powerful "defensive" strategies that are typically ignoredor deemphasized in most other options books: indispensable techniquesfor any investor anticipating a market decline, now or in the future.Thomsett shows how to use long puts to ensure paper profits in stock orto offset losses, even when stocks decline steeply and quickly; how toapply puts in straddles and spreads, in multi-part strategies thatprevent losses and hedge risks; how to identify opportunities to createcash flow by selling limited-risk naked puts to create cash flow, andmuch more. These defensive strategies balance out the "you can't lose"approach seen in all too many options books. What's more, Thomsett'sclear writing style, complemented by dozens of easy-to-understandtables, graphics, and examples, makes it easy for any investor to applythese strategies successfully.