Most investors have a long only strategy across their portfolio. They believe shorting and trading options is for the pros. With all the information available on options and shorting, that’s simply not the case. Having some portion of your portfolio tied to a short hedged investment (which I’ve written about often) should be a part […]
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You only have to suffer through the pain of being trapped in a low liquidity investment once, and you’re scarred for life. That great position can be cut in half in very short order in today’s reignited volatility. So, having learned your lesson you find a stock to purchase with decent volume. But wait, there’s […]
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Several readers have asked me to walk them through exactly how a percentage, or delta, hedge works in a real life example. So, here we go. Over the next several weeks I’ll be doing a percentage hedge in Bank of America (BAC) common stock and the Bank of America Class A Warrants (BACWSA). I’ll […]
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We recently received a question about warrants and short stock positions. One of the strategies that can be used profitably with warrants is to buy warrants and short common stock. This results in a short position in the common in your brokerage account. The question is can your long warrants now be used to “close […]
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