To hedge against a resurgence in inflation, buy gold, buy put options on bonds or take out a mortgage.
You could buy put options but, currently, they are very expensive.
Or hedgers could buy put options, which give them the right to sell gold if it is to their advantage, but walk away if prices rise.
If you are worried about a decline in the market, though, you can also buy put option contracts to cover some or all of that exposure.
Ignoring this information is a common put-buying mistake, and I have also found that most sell a stock short or buy a put based on fundamentals, as opposed to technical analysis.
Still, their bid to buy Landsbanki put in play a rival, Bunadarbanki, as well.
My trading idea is to sell or (for more aggressive investors) buy a put option on EEM, or specifically on EWT or EWY.
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As a crude (but at least fairly priced) approximation of the insurance you need, you could buy some put options on heavily traded home builder stocks.
Owners of low-basis stock in a public company can buy a put below the current price, sell a call above it and borrow most of the value of the stock.
Buy a put option with a strike above the current price of the index and write a simultaneous put option that has the same expiration month although with a lower strike.
Once you buy, and put the metal into your shopping cart, the price locks in.
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The hope is that the kind of big investors which buy bonds would put pressure on banks to stick to the straight and narrow.
"My husband teases me that I'm too vigilant when I buy turkey and put it in a plastic bag and put it on the bottom shelf of the grocery cart, away from everything else, " Undurraga said.
Even when this was just a mere rumor, the internet was flooded with comments on forums and message boards saying that if the next generation Xbox did in fact come with such a restriction, they would automatically buy whatever Sony put out.
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After the March 15th announcement, some analysts put out buy recommendations on Hikari Tsushin's stock.
So no one could buy the alumina to put through the big Russian aluminium factories to make aluminium.
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Sometimes web sites buy stolen prototypes and put t hem on the web.
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"Imagine a scenario where you go to Ikea and buy a chair, put it in your room and it self-assembles, " said Carlo Olguin, principal research scientist at the software firm.
"Many families can't pay their mortgage, their rent, get their groceries, buy food, or put petrol in their car and older people can't get access to their pensions, " he said.
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The sector is also seeing controversy as Virgin Mobile engages MetroPCS in a legal tussle over Metro's MetroFlash service, which lets consumers buy prepaid minutes and put them on any phone, even ones sold by rival companies.
When you put in a buy at 10 a.m. and then walk away from your desk, you become a patsy for professional traders.
But if you don't want to get off this train quite yet, here's another idea: You could buy some insurance using "put" options.
Colby's formula put a "buy" recommendation on the Brazil Index in April 2005 and kept it until June 2, 2006, for a 77% gain.
Citigroup, for example, put a strong buy recommendation on China Resources Land, a property company, in mid-September, saying the share price could appreciate by 20%.
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In the case of Cephalon, McMillan got his "buy" signal from the put-call ratio, a measure of investor sentiment expressed as put open interest divided by call open interest.
Since we trade in real-time and market participants want value added now, I put together the buy points and strategies of the past few weeks along with a new one if you want to be involved in what can be another big run in the fourth quarter.
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