Sentences with phrase «against your stock positions»

For example, selling call options against stock positions you own can provide some downside protection and also produce a nice income stream.

The CFD (or Contract For Difference) is a hugely popular method of trading the financial markets and is also used by many investors to hedge against stock positions they hold.

Writing calls against stock positions adds to income.

Many yield - oriented investors miss out on one of the single best method for generating income: Selling calls against their stock positions.

In my original article on selling options against your stock positions, I did not focus on dividend stocks.

Not exact matches

Short - seller Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday that he's taken positions against health - care stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax.

«Managers are using short positions in these stocks to hedge their portfolios against large negative market moves.»

Finally, you have the nerve to say, «Unless you believe the SEC (or FTC) will reverse its position and take concrete action against HLF, there is very little downside risk to this stock.»

The position went against us by 15 % out of the gate, but a disappointing 3Q16 earnings report in early November sent the stock down over 20 %.

A long put option could also be used to hedge against unfavorable moves in a long stock position.

Also, should our insight prove premature and the stock or investment that we own works against us, the position becomes smaller and thus less worrisome among our portfolio holdings.

Given that the market's oversold condition has cleared, the Fund again has a «staggered strike» position that I would expect to provide a strong defense against fresh downside pressure (though losses might still occur if our stocks were to perform poorly or if we experience a net decay in option time - value).

Whenever I simply held my positions through earnings and hoped for the best, I was somehow wrong a majority of the time, and the stocks gapped sharply against me.

I hope AW would also take a look at MG, not the dortmund / bayern munich youngster but the other older one currently on loan at Besiktas... If he is available at decent price, looking at his performance in the friendly against England and at Euro 2016, I reckon MG has a decent shot at competing with OG for the starting position... He like EC was hot cake a couple of seasons ago but his stocks plummet after failing to settle at Fiorentina.

Connor Williams entered the 2017 college football season with top - ten hype after performing like one of the elite players at his position as a true - sophomore for the Longhorns; however, he injuries and an awful game against Maryland hurt his draft stock.

However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.

The federal complaint against Mr. Skelos claims that he used his position to pressure a developer, believed to be mega-donor Glenwood Management, into getting his son a no - show consultant job at a company that produced water filtration systems for municipalities, a company which Glenwood holds substantial stock in.

I need to admit that this is a big position in my portfolio and this goes against my dedication to diversification, but this individual stock is still a small portion of my overall portfolio once all accounts considered.

The positions the bloggers and commentary took against reinvesting dividends centered on whether the stock price would be good at the time of the reinvestment; and it mentioned strategies like pulling the dividends out and either putting them into a high - yield savings account or accumulating them until such time there was enough to make a new investment into some other stock or stock fund.

My conclusion is that it is possible to get an excellent income stream (10 % or so after fees) from a combination of buying strong yield stocks and writing call options against the positions.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

Second, we help people who have large concentrated stock positions generate additional income by selling call options against them.

Some managers invest the proceeds from their short positions in low - risk assets, while others dedicate a portion to long stock positions in order to hedge against broad market rallies.

Using the same pre-existing criteria as in your calls program [e.g., high - grade stocks, dividend payers, names you're comfortable owning long - term], why not sell puts against your cash position.

When you unwind the position or sell any securities / stock, against that again buy Liquid ETF.

Buy LEAPS ® Puts The purchase of LEAPS ® puts to hedge a stock position may provide investors protection against declines in stock prices.

Our positioning is purely valuation based; we have nothing against U.S. stocks.

When the stock price moves against profits, reanalyze and either a) go flat, recognizing your mistake, and being grateful that it was small, or b) increase the bet to a full position, and be grateful that you didn't put a full position on initially.

I know I could be right, but there's always a chance the market or the stock does something I don't expect, and the position goes against me.

The position amounts to less than 1 % of assets, and most of the day - to - day fluctuation in the Fund tends to be attributable to differences in the performance of the stocks held by the Fund and the indices we use to hedge, but we expect the higher - strike put options to fortify our defense against the risk of indiscriminate selling should the market encounter more than a moderate amount of weakness.

You can then sell near - term calls against your position and target returns close to 10 %, with risk far lower than a general stock portfolio.

They also maintain a short position against the broad stock market to hedge against a market decline and invest the majority of their assets in cash alternatives and high quality, short - term fixed income securities.

Mohnish Pabrai says: «When you are long on a stock, as it goes down in price, the position is going against you and it becomes a smaller portion of your portfolio.

In this session we'll go beyond just risk management to help you learn how you can use options to try to recover from a long stock position that went against you.

Learn how you can use options to try to recover from a long stock position that went against you.

One concern is lawsuit by the landlord against the company, but that company states that it does not believe the lawsuit will have a material adverse effect on its financial position.With its stock at a substantial discount to its net cash position, its cash - burning product development activities at an end and a proposal to identify and complete an alternate strategic transaction or liquidate, we think VXGN is a good prospect, and we're going to maintain our position.

This is music to the ears of those selling calls against their dividend stock positions for a yield of 8 - 10 % with greater safety than pure stock ownership.

In order to hedge your bets against overall economic downturn or industry contraction that would wipe out your gains on Visa, you could short sell a certain amount of Mastercard stock along with your Visa long position.