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Make a smaller bet that you feel comfortable with potentially losing. There are many ways you could do it, but one option I like is buying an out of the money call on SPXU for how every many months out you feel confident with. This is a 3X leveraged inverse ETF of the S&P. It is currently...

Makes sense, I won't risk the long but I will pay attention to this all in order to catch it on the way back down. Thanks for the advice.

I hear you brother. I guess the way I'm looking at it is with the options, I only put up what I can afford to lose and just hope for the best. The profit potential is so big on a 10-15% index correction that even if I you put up $5,000 each month for 5 years and lost it 59 months straight, you...

I can see that side of the argument as well, I think it's more of a short term correction and then a continued bull but who knows. I guess I will make up for any option misses with ES longs, shoot probably even more so.

You know I was up in the air on that one McNoob. Would you wait a bit until after it potentially goes up higher first due to possibly continued concern or do you think it will just continue to reverse from here? Also, where would you expect it to drop too and when? Back to around 60 or do you...

Hey Traider, of course that would work as well. The reason is that I did some calculations in comparison with how much SPY dropped last December (about -16%) in comparison to how much SPXU gained (which was about +65%) and then chose strike prices that I feel they would each be in the money at...

Awesome, thanks for the tip SteveM, that sounds promising! I will look into some of the others as well. Just curious, when would you put in the trade and how would you do it? Get in soon with a further out expiration date or wait for a turn in the market and then buy your puts with closer...

Hey guys, I thought this might be fun and helpful to many of us ET options traders hoping to be the next John Paulson but not thinking about a particular move. I'm guessing many of us believe a market correction at the very least is in the near future. Even if the Fed will not allow a full out...

Yep, exactly, people are worried about any potential negative news that may come up over the weekend relating to the Iran situation. I believe if it wasn't for that situation last night the market would have continued to rise today rather than dump overnight in the futures market and continue...

Great info! We just have to collectively figure out the best signals to watch for in order to maximize on the remaining bull market gains and also the best signals to watch for to really capitalize on the correction when it comes, as well as different ideas on the best ways to do so. I have...

Thank you Real Money, this is something I am going to need to learns more about and start paying attention to as well. I apologize for my lack of fully understanding, but I can see that the blue line represents the S&P and I'm guessing the white line represents actual bonds but I was a little...

Interesting perspective, seems like you really have a deep understanding of the market Real Money. I have been a Bear for the past 6-months now and have been getting crushed on my options plays that would have paid off big on a correction or crash. After coming to the realization that the Fed...