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Basic Training: Playing defense with options: it?s very important right now!
- Basic Defense: Protective Puts (full overview in Ep. 3)
- How do you hedge your position with protective puts?
- Intermediate Defense: Put Spreads and Ratio Put Spreads.
- Covered Calls – (full overview in Ep. 4) How do you generate income with a modest hedging impact?
- The Power of the Collar: combining the put and the call into a beast of an option. This is the favorite defensive strategy of most financial advisors who use options.
- The pros/cons of repeatedly doing zero cost collars.
- Volatility Defense: VIX Options/Futures. The myth of VIX’s perfect inverse correlation- there are problems with relying on volatility as your only hedge, i.e. black swans, days when VIX outperforms, etc.
- The pros/cons of direct defense vs. indirect defense.
Mail Call: Hey recruits, what do you want to know?
- Question from Tina K. – When (if) should I consider volatility products as a hedge?
- Question from Mr_Zen – Can you explain the difference between iron condors and iron butterflies?
- Question from Alan O – What do the drill instructors think of the Minis so far? Are they worth exploring for basic options traders?