A collar options strategy protects stock holdings from significant losses while limiting potential gains. Investors create a collar by owning shares of a stock. They then purchase a put option below ...

A new academic paper finds variable prepaid forwards to be much more effective than options collars with margin loans — even though they're more complex and less accessible.

The Dog Collar strategy uses put and call options to limit downside and define risk on beaten-down large-cap stocks showing signs of bottoming. I currently favor applying collars to Microsoft, UPS, ...

Protective collars are an options strategy that limits and defines your downside risk in exchange for trading away some of your upside potential on the underlying stock. Designed to define your ...

The fence options strategy can shield investments from losses while limiting profit potential. Explore how to construct this ...