The benefit of having a hedged equity strategy is that your portfolio is hedged against the downside. You still look to capture a large part of the upside. You do not need to time the market. You do not need to read every bit of news or prediction about impending doom in the markets.
With expiration day just under 2 weeks away and counting, we wanted to give a short update on how the HiPOS Conservative strategy trade is holding up. You can see above on the chart that after entry the market has moved higher.
It would seem that the majority of prognosticators on the daily finance shows are talking up the possibility of higher inflation. The word “transitory” has become part of the vernacular as the Federal Reserve has told us...
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Today the ZEGA traders were back to work on HIPOS Conservative finding a short call spread that qualified under our rules. For this one we identified a short 4375/4425 level in the S&P 500 Index that expires on May 7th.
