As stocks touch new records, here's how to protect against a pullback – CNBC

Mike Khouw, strategist at YieldMaxETFs, discusses how to hedge after the S&P 500 staged an impressive recovery. Source link
Stocks continue surging to record highs. Here’s how to hedge

The S&P 500 has staged an impressive recovery, rallying more than 17% off its March lows on a combination of tariff relief optimism, resilient earnings and a powerful rebound in semiconductors. It is a move that has rewarded patience. It is also one that has quietly made hedging both more affordable and more strategically sensible. […]
Jim Cramer says this is how to play a market rotation — and one stock he’d buy

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said investors navigating Monday’s volatile market should use sharp pullbacks as buying opportunities rather than chasing short-lived rallies. “You go to your machine that you use for stocks,” the “Mad Money” host said. “You query it for the top ten largest losers in the S&P 500. If you like any of them…then […]
Sequence of returns risk explained

Ciara Houghton | Moment | Getty Images If you’re within a decade of retirement, the current stock market volatility may be a good reminder of a key risk that lies ahead for your nest egg. While stocks tend to offer the best opportunity for long-term growth despite their ups and downs, a persisting market downturn […]
How investors can approach markets’ ‘choppy, bumpy ride’: analyst

Trevor Williams | DigitalVision | Getty Images The stock market rallied on Tuesday, the last trading day of March, inspired by hopes for an end to the Iran war. But it was not an easy month for investors. In March, the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indices each fell around 5% — capping off […]
The ‘Buffett Indicator’ shows the market is way overvalued

For the past several months, many institutional investors have cited the U.S. stock market capitalization-to-GDP ratio, also known as the “Buffett Indicator,” a metric he first described 25 years ago in an interview with Fortune, as an indication that equities may potentially be overvalued. According to Bloomberg Research, as of Friday U.S. equities are currently […]
This oil drilling stock is remarkably cheap. How to trade it with options

The “Dogs of the Dow” is an investment strategy, often employed at the end of a year in anticipation of some potential “mean reversion” that identifies underperforming stocks with high yields. As the name implies, it looks for these within the Dow Jones Industrial Average . The strategy then holds those securities for a year […]
This cybersecurity stock is emerging as an AI play. How to play it with options

Akamai is emerging as an upcoming AI beneficiary with a business transformation that is materially reshaping its long-term growth trajectory. Historically known as a content-delivery (CDN) provider, Akamai has recently repositioned itself as an edge-native cloud and AI compute platform, leveraging its global infrastructure footprint to offer lower-latency, lower-cost inference workloads. This transition is finally showing […]
Carvana shares have no room for error. How to make money if they start falling

Carvana’s share price has staged a stunning comeback. The recent news that the company would be added to the S & P 500 propelled the enterprise value to more than $100 billion, a number that not only vastly exceeds those of large auto dealers like Penske , Lithia , AutoNation , Group 1 and Carmax […]
Market volatility is picking up. How to use option spreads to protect and maximize returns

Stock returns aren’t normally distributed. Very small daily returns occur more frequently than a normal distribution would suggest, and very large daily returns also occur more frequently than a normal distribution would suggest. The “average” move, perhaps unintuitively, occurs less frequently than a normal distribution would imply. If this doesn’t make sense, imagine a room […]