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Investment - Call & Put Option and Short Sales
Your client owns a lot of AA stock with a very low cost basis. Your client is worried that the price of AA stock will drop over the next six months, but he doesn't want to sell his AA stock and incur a capital gain. What strategies can he use?
The solution discusses four possible courses of action for the client with a long term hold in a stock which the client doesn't want to sell. Each option has a full paragraph of explanation including examples and references to the real AA stock options for understanding.
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