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• Active Risk Management by Richard Gard

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Active Risk Management by Richard Gard The options market is often thought of as a simple directional play: Buy a call option if you're bullish or buy a put option if you're bearish. But options can also be used to manage a position. Here's a real-life example of a trade that started as a simple long future position, became a synthetic call option, mutated to a long derivative strangle and (finally!) ended up as a dynamic put ratio backspread. Often, traders using trend-following systems with passive risk management face day-to-day changes in the markets' direction that can challenge the dis...

AUTHOR: Richard GardDATE: DEC 1993