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Additionally, selling calls provides an effective exit strategy on the long stock position.
The undertaking of a long stock position suggests the trader is expecting U.S. Steel's shares to rebound at some point.
It seems the trader is hedging the long stock position with protective put options, and reducing the cost of protection by selling out-of-the-money calls.
The put contracts yield downside protection on the long stock position if the home builder's shares decline another 10.2% from the current price to breach the break-even point on the puts at $10.63 by expiration day.
Although the initial purchase of the protective put options in mid-May might have coincided with a long stock position by an investor worried that SunPower might fall even further.
The trader(s) are most probably taking a long-term bullish stance on Ford by taking a long stock position and anticipating share price appreciation in the next couple of years to expiration.
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Recall that the highest PowerRating stocks, those with ratings of 9 or 10, have been among the best long stock positions for short-term traders.
It may also be that some of the big investors are cautiously using these as hedges against their long stock positions.
A continuation of this trend supports the short-term bullish case for stocks, as it tells us that investors are still moving funds from the sidelines, or short side of the market, back into long stock positions.
Goldman's findings are based on an analysis of 687 funds with $498 billion of long stock positions and an estimated $346 billion of short positions, or bearish bets on the market.
The puts may have been purchased by bearish investors looking to profit on continued downward movement in the price of the underlying, or could be the work of traders seeking protection on long stock positions.
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