This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. Increasingly more advisors and investors are discovering the benefits of options strategies in their portfolios. There is great value in ...

What Is a Protective Put? A protective put is an options trading strategy that aims to protect against potential loss in an investor's asset, like a stock position. Put options give you the right to ...

Earnings season is in full swing, with several blue chips set to report this week. When trading options amid the volatility surrounding earnings, one way to mitigate risk is with protective puts. One ...

One way traders can "insure" their investment and limit losses, in case of a sharp selloff, is through protective puts. A protective put locks in a selling price (the strike) for the shares as a ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst for 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant, and finance manager with an MBA from ...

A put is an options contract that lets one investor, the put buyer, lock in a price to sell an asset before a specific time. On the other side of the contract, another investor, the put seller, agrees ...

A put option gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell an underlying asset at a specified strike price within a set period. Investors can use puts to hedge against a decline in an ...

What Is a Put Option? A put option (or “put”), which gives the holder the right to sell, can be contrasted with a call option, which provides the holder with the right to buy the underlying security ...

Another earnings season is kicking off, with big banks leading the way. While the major indexes are currently on a record-setting run, profit-taking and uncertainty over the future of interest rates ...