AAPL - Perfect Time For November Election Protection

2024-06-15 10:00:00 ET

Summary

• The U.S. Election is less than 5 months away, yet downside equity market protection looks astonishingly cheap.
• Investors can prepare for potential market volatility by considering Put options contracts on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust expiring after the election.
• Even in a surprise scenario where market volatility doesn't take hold in (or by) November, Put Option buyers may be able to recover a great deal of their insurance premiums.

With global stock markets trading at or near all-time highs, including the S&P 500, Nasdaq, FTSE 100, DAX - even Japan's Nikkei recently surpassed its 1989 high - one might easily forget that we're living in tumultuous and uncertain times. There's a war in Eastern Europe, another in the middle-east, climate activists now engaging in hunger strikes in demand of change, and recently a former U.S. President became the first in history convicted of a crime, all the while campaigning for a second term in office....

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