Protective Put vs Stop-Loss Order
Protective put vs stop-loss order on one 100-share position: how each sets a floor, what an overnight gap does to a stop, and what the put premium costs.
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Protective put vs stop-loss order on one 100-share position: how each sets a floor, what an overnight gap does to a stop, and what the put premium costs.
How many puts to hedge a portfolio? The contract formula worked through at the same index level for SPX, XSP and SPY, with rounding and cost in dollars.
The put-call ratio is puts traded divided by calls traded. See its real range on the full US options tape: by expiration, index vs equity, and against a decade.