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 ...

To manage the latest bout of market volatility, consider adding an option collar strategy to help limit a portfolio's downside. For the truly option-phobic adviser, don't worry — collar strategies are ...

stock to decrease the cost of downside protection, using a strategy that is often referred to as a collar. The investor bought the out-of-the-money Nov. 29 puts for roughly $2.97 and simultaneously ...

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 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, ...