Options Trading Strategies

Discussions center on using put and call options for betting against stocks, shorting alternatives, risks, and profits, often comparing to direct short selling.

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clamprecht Apr 19, 2016 View on HN

Sell options, if you're brave.

hencq Nov 4, 2025 View on HN

How is selling call options not betting against a company?

hhmc Jun 13, 2018 View on HN

I suspect you meant to type "2. Buy in the money options"

wollsmoth Nov 8, 2022 View on HN

you can lose a lot of money trying to time options trades like that.

fastchicken Sep 27, 2011 View on HN

Look up Put options and shorting stock. Thats a good start. BTW, not exactly something you'd expect to do without some training. Like an average person setting up and running an EC2 cluster.

tempsy Jan 29, 2020 View on HN

not with buying options - your max loss is just what you buy it for.

aportnoy Nov 27, 2018 View on HN

Wouldn’t be hard if these were put options…

paulpauper Nov 15, 2018 View on HN

Someone probably made a killing with the put options

jrockway Oct 7, 2012 View on HN

Why sell short instead of buying put options?

tyn Dec 17, 2009 View on HN

What if i play in the options market?