If I needed to sell $8000, I could by 2 of these. What if I wanted to spend less? I could create a synthetic short: sell a call, and buy a put (essentially funding it with the sold call), at strike price 80. For larger sums, I might use futures.
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If I needed to sell $8000, I could by 2 of these. What if I wanted to spend less? I could create a synthetic short: sell a call, and buy a put (essentially funding it with the sold call), at strike price 80. For larger sums, I might use SPY or futures.
As another example, let's say I need to buy $4000 of large cap to rebalance. Instead of buying that stock, I can sell a put, which will have a positive notional value. Similar to above: