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Selling puts on the SPY to help offset market volatility | Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors
11 Dec

Sheaff Brock Sells Puts on the SPY

It has a long name, but the Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors Index Income Overlay portfolio strategy has one simple goal: seeking additional income that is incremental to (meaning on top of) a high-net-worth investor’s existing portfolio. For those investors comfortable with taking additional stock market risk for the opportunity to generate added (net of fees) cash flow, the Income Overlay portfolio is a long-term, bullish play on stock investing using a the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (symbol SPY). This strategy [...]

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18 Oct

In an Index Income Strategy, Optimism and Patience are at a Premium

Investment clients who are bearish on equities—or who do not have the patience to wait through market corrections—need not apply, at least not for becoming invested in the Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors Overlay Strategy. That’s because this particular strategy is intended for long-term, time-premium capture strategy, and is not a trading strategy designed for quick gains. How does the strategy work? For each of three subsequent months, portfolio managers: Sell put options on an S&P 500 ETF (exchange-traded fund) Buy [...]

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16 Oct

With Put Options, Portfolio Strategy is of Premium Importance

While put option buyers are interested in insuring their risk, put option sellers (also called put writers) are willing to take on that risk in exchange for additional portfolio income, explains Dave Gilreath, Sheaff Brock Managing Director. That income takes the form of premiums paid by the put buyer to the put seller. Put writing is a strategy whereby an investor writes a contract, selling that contract to a buyer. The contract obligates the put seller to buy share at [...]

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