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How Can You Use Options to Protect Your Investment Portfolio?
The stock market has had a long bull run and now is in danger of a major correction. We have written about how to deal with this possibility in our articles about safe investment niches, if you want to buy gold, and how you might switch your investment focus from growth to value. Today, we would like to look at another approach. How can you use options to protect your investment portfolio?
The Use of Options in Investing
Stock options can be useful in getting into an investment, providing a little extra income along the way, and protecting your investment. The tools […]
Buy Options Ahead of Earnings Reports
AAPL earnings came out and the stock went down 2.1% after going up 0.6% the day before. The issue with Apple was that iPhone sales were down. It appears that Apple product devotees are waiting for the tenth anniversary launch of the iPhone 8 later this year. Nevertheless if you purchased AAPL in the run up to the earnings report you lost money. An alternative could be to buy options ahead of earnings reports. Investor’s Business Daily makes the same suggestion in an article about how stocks are set to fall on Apple earnings miss.
Investors should be careful of holding […]