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 ...

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, ...

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.

Let’s flash back to 1993. I was still hanging on to my 20s and newly married, and I was working on the 97th floor of the ...

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

Retirees sitting on concentrated gains in NVDA (up 1,222% in five years) or TSLA (P/E near 400) face identical single-stock risk Cuban hedged in 1999. Cuban's protective collar strategy of buying puts ...