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/buys ES 1127.5 stop 1111 target 1145

ended up buying SPY ETF outright for about 85% of dollar amount

short squeeze day

a good trader once told me, never let a winning trade turn into a loser.

of course you won't take this advise no one does

good question play defense trade stocks, nothing else never take a positon of more than 2500 hard stops at 5% do this for a year

flat it is

i doubt the ppt thinks like that not their money anyway

and, perhaps more interesting what will you do? i'll go first. At the open : +2% or more: i will buy 2 ES calls -1% to +1%: will do nothing -2% or more: I will buy 1 ES put.

rosy> that would seem the best solution, only it's not do-able commission wise for this portfolio + the spreads on the calls and puts would kill performance if i would want to take the hedge off after only a couple of hours

Where will the ES open today?

thanks for your reply ammo, i believe you have misunderstood my original post? at this moment i am short a basket of 60 stocks. ranging from 50 shares to 600 shares per stocks. i'm looking to temporarily hedge against upswings some time next week. thanks

Thanks for your reply atticus, 1) what does: 'down and out skew on the index' mean? 2) as i understand, you say to sell 2x the amount of puts? so if i'm for example short 100 shares per position, to short 2 puts per position? but what if the whole market tanks? and all options get...

thanks for your reply austin the hedge is not tax related, tax is totally out of the picture as i'm offshore. the purpose of the hedge is saving time (closing and reopening 60 positions at a decent price takes some time) and commissions. if i would have all the time in the world, and...

of course if my short position runs against me, my dollar exposure goes up but i can adjust if needed was thinking about ES calls as they seem to offer the best value per capital used at first glance

mr. morse: the reason for my hedge is to temporarily protect against market upswings

options are not my speciality (as some of you might know ;-) but was leaning towards buying calls as they tie up less capital than the etf's.

thanks for your time guys forgot to add that the beta is -1.32

best way to hedge a portfolio of 60 short stocks? buy calls buy futures buy etf (spy,etc) have i overlooked anything?

selling covered calls is no hedge against the 50% drop the original poster expects