But he is buying puts for clients who want protection but who couldn't sell without triggering big taxable gains.
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Buying puts allows you to sell or put the stock to someone else at the strike price you have purchased.
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Buying puts is one of the safest ways an investor can get some protection while keeping skin in the game.
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Puts are an option strategy, and buying puts is a bearish trade.
Given the low prices and the market's strong rally from its 2009 low, now might be a good time to consider buying puts.
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Those who were buying puts and shorting stock-index futures early in the week were very happy, but the last hour rally Thursday took away many smiles.
Out-of-the-money puts on the index are generally more expensive than equally OTM calls because more investors want to protect their stock portfolios on the downside by buying puts than tend to speculate on a rise in the index.
Buying some puts (which are relatively inexpensive) or selling into strength is a good way to protect your gains.
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This is partly because farming or buying hops puts pressure on the bottom line, but also because many American drinkers weaned on soft drinks have never developed the Old World tooth for bitterness.
Buying bonds puts money into the banking system.
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The problem of course is that this separation between site and social puts the buying decision at risk.
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Contrarians betting on a rebound took to multiple expiries, buying calls and selling puts in the August contract, as well as initiating bullish spreads in longer-dated contracts.
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Smart operators hedge positions by buying out of the money puts.
To explain: if the purchases are sterilised, that means that every euro the ECB puts into the system buying government bonds will be offset by the ECB taking money out elsewhere, so the overall stock of money remains unchanged.
Buying up commercial paper straight from issuers basically puts the Fed in the commercial lending business.
I'm not buying the theory that the acquisition of Motorola puts Nokia and Research In Motion into play.
Options players cheered HSBC today by ditching downside protection, selling puts and engaging in light call buying in the front month.
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He sees a buying opportunity if the MACD for the major averages puts in a higher low.
Many people have resorted to buying bottled water, and as the parasite particularly puts older people at risk, free supplies are being delivered to local nursing homes.
Spending money on others or giving to charity puts a bigger smile on your face than buying things for yourself, according to Michael Norton, a professor at Harvard Business School.
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Hedge fund managers will usually buy exchange-traded fund (ETF) puts as they accumulate certain equities, thereby creating a bias toward put buying on these ETFs.
During the past 10 days, in fact, speculators on the ISE, CBOE, and PHLX have bought to open 22.90 puts for every call on the shares, marking a near annual-high pace of put buying relative to calls.
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The reason it puts some store in the data is that it says the last two times long-only buying was at these levels, March 2009 and July 2009, the MSCI Europe index performed very strongly over the next three months.
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