The last time small investors were spending more on puts than calls was during the regional banking crisis two years ago ...

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Chart 1: When you buy (or sell ... so the seller of a call has “unlimited downside.” In contrast, a put option gives the buyer the right to sell the underlying when the contract expires.

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Put options are a type of option that increases in value as a stock falls. A put allows the owner to lock in a predetermined price to sell a specific stock, while put sellers agree to buy the ...

As the chart below from Vanda Research shows, retail investors had just started to spend more money on put options than call options, just before the S&P 500 SPX embarked on its dramatic bounce.

The savage stock market rally following U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff turnaround may have caused severe pain for many retail option traders. As the chart below from Vanda Research shows, retail ...