Long puts are hedged with short calls; short puts are hedged with long calls.
You hedge a call you sold by purchasing a put in usually the same security.
Sell the unerlying stock short.
Put options are hedges for long positions. As such, you should buy put options to hedge against a long gbp position.
Exercising options is done by the option buyer. If the buyer exercises a put, he is selling to the option writer the stock. If a call is being exercised, he is buying the stock from the writer.
To hedge a short put position, you can buy a put option with the same underlying asset and a similar expiration date but at a lower strike price. This strategy, known as a bull put spread, limits potential losses if the underlying asset declines significantly. Alternatively, you could also consider buying shares of the underlying asset to offset potential losses from the short put if the stock price falls.
You could either buy a higher call and create a credit spread to hedge the short call option OR Buy some of the stock and use it like a covered call strategy.
The holder/purchaser/owner of a call option contract has the right to buy an asset (or call the asset away) from a writer/seller of a call option contract at the pre-determined contract or strike price. The holder/purchaser/owner of a call option contract expects the price of the underlying asset to rise during the term or duration of the call contract, for as the value of the underlying asset increases so does the value of the call option contract. Conversely, the write/seller of a call option contract expects the price of the underlying asset to remain stable or to decline. The holder/purchaser/owner of a put option contract has the right to sell an asset (or put the asset) to a writer/seller of a put option contract at the pre-determined contract or strike price. The holder/purchaser/owner of a put option contract expects the price of the underlying asset to decline during the term or duration of the put contract, for as the value of the underlying asset declines the contract value increases. Conversely, the writer/seller of a put option contract expects the price of the underlying asset to remain stable or to rise.
The option to sell shares of stock at a specific time in the future is called a "put option." A put option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified number of shares at a predetermined price, known as the strike price, before or at the option's expiration date. This financial instrument is often used by investors to hedge against potential declines in stock prices.
The protective put strategy is often employed by investors who want to hedge against downside risk while maintaining the potential for upside gains. It involves purchasing a put option for shares you already own, essentially acting as an insurance policy against significant stock price declines.
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What happens is the put writer gets hosed. If a company goes into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, all its stock becomes worthless. Unfortunately for the people who wrote put options on the company's stock, those do NOT become worthless. If the put buyer decides to exercise the option - and he will - the writer has to buy all those shares of worthless stock at the strike price.
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