{"id":184506,"date":"2023-02-02T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/traders-insight\/a-strategy-to-reduce-stock-risk-and-protect-future-gains\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:58:06","slug":"a-strategy-to-reduce-stock-risk-and-protect-future-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/a-strategy-to-reduce-stock-risk-and-protect-future-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strategy to Reduce Stock Risk and Protect Future Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When in doubt, get out\u2014or take some profits and rent exposure to your stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approach helps investors to proactively manage risks and rewards in the stock market. Investment risk is real, and profits don\u2019t exist until they are realized. Still, most everyone focuses on how much money that they can make, even though profits are a digital illusion that exist in brokerage accounts until a stock is sold to secure the gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If everyone added just a little discipline to their investment process, rather than musing about how much money they are going to make, they would have much better outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock-replacement strategy\u2014that is, selling stock and buying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/how-to-buy-and-sell-options-without-making-a-fool-of-yourself-51600336811?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bullish call options<\/a>&nbsp;as a proxy for the position\u2014is one way that investors can define and manage risk and realize profits without forgoing the potential of future gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/market-data\/stocks\/asml?countrycode=nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ASML Holding<\/a> (ticker: ASML). The Dutch semiconductor equipment maker\u2019s stock is up 24% this year. The company said that it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/asml-earnings-stock-price-51674636628?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expects sales<\/a>&nbsp;to grow by 25% in 2023, even though many investors are concerned that efforts to limit China\u2019s access to chips could broadly curtail semiconductor stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASML\u2019s year-to-date stock gain is more than three times that of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/market-data\/indexes\/spx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S&amp;P 500 index<\/a>.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/market-data\/indexes\/sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PHLX Semiconductor Index<\/a>&nbsp;is up 21% over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That big a stock gain in about a month is significant. The question is whether the momentum is sustainable, especially if the global economy succumbs to a recession. The answer isn\u2019t clear. Investors who don\u2019t want to wait for the answer can sell the stock and replace it with a call option that expires in six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do so, an investor would first sell the stock to secure the profits. A position of 500 shares is worth about $339,265. To keep the example simple, assume the stock was bought at the start of the year, and the profit realized when the stock was sold was about $81,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To maintain exposure to ASML, which expresses the view that the stock could keep rising, an investor could buy the June $700 call, which cost about $52 when the stock was trading at $678.53. During the past 52 weeks, ASML has ranged from $363.15 to $714.62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To replicate the number of shares that were sold, an investor would buy five June $700 calls. Each options contract represents 100 shares of the associated stock. The calls cost about $26,000, thereby reducing the realized profit on the stock sale to about $55,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if ASML stock is at $800 at expiration, each call is worth $100, giving you an additional total call profit of about $45,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock-replacement strategy will strike investment novices as an asymmetrical idea with many moving parts to track. It\u2019s simpler than it seems. The call options essentially act like the stock they replace\u2014with some critical distinctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Options cost less money than stocks. Owning a call means that an investor has reduced the amount of money at risk at a time when the stock market\u2019s next move is hard to predict. In return for that benefit, call owners forgo the stock dividend. Unlike equities, options don\u2019t produce dividends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategy is a potential antidote to the hand-wringing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/larry-summers-inflation-51674231905?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about inflation<\/a>, earnings multiples, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/fed-meeting-rate-decision-jerome-powell-speech-today-51675207080?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Federal Reserve\u2019s intentions<\/a>. It will probably generate a tax bill, but so be it. If people tried to avoid investment losses the same way that they try to avoid triggering tax bills, it would radically change their finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally Posted February 2, 2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/reduce-stock-risk-and-protect-future-gains-51675295853?refsec=options&amp;mod=topics_options\">A Strategy to Reduce Stock Risk and Protect Future Gains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Steven M. Sears is the president and chief operating officer of Options Solutions, a specialized asset-management firm. Neither he nor the firm has a position in the options or underlying securities mentioned in this column.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in doubt, get out\u2014or take some profits and rent exposure to your stocks. 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