Biden's Stock Market increased 10% in his 1st six months. 3 times better than Trump.

[Walt]

It’s probably lost on you that those two statements are a contradiction.

There is no contradiction. Buying a put option is betting the market will go down. You want to be the only one who knows it, so you can get the best price. Basically, you want an unexpected collapse in prices.

The option contract is filled once the market price decreases to the price where I bought the contract. If the stock increases after that I bought a good stock for cheap. If it continues to go down I’m fucked.

Options by definition are not automatically filled (the correct term is exercised). They are the option to be exercised, not a requirement to be. If you want it to be required, buy a future.

The owner of an option would rarely exercise it. The option has the value of difference between the strike price, and the current price, but also the value of the chance of a future drop in the stock price (in the case of a put option). If you exercise the option, you capture difference in the strike price, but lose the future price risk. In this case, risk can only be good, because you are never forced to use an option. The regular thing to do is sell the option on, and take all the profit.

If the stock price increases, the put option price decreases, and you lose money. A "roaring back" market would be a disaster to a holder of put options.

[Port Tack]

Remember how long it was still Obama's economy after Trump was elected? Its still Trump's economy.

Trump said the market would crash if Biden was elected. Just one more fucking stupid thing that shithead said.

[Port Tack]

This is one of the stupidest post's I have ever read on this board.

Then maybe I'll read it again, it's probably true because you are far and away the biggest dumbfuck on this site and that's saying a lot because there are a lot of them.

[Jarod]

And it was Trump's economy when the market plunged in the Spring of 2020 when Trump stepped on his dick trying to deal with the Pandemic.

Yes

[Sailor]

Then maybe I'll read it again, it's probably true because you are far and away the biggest dumbfuck on this site and that's saying a lot because there are a lot of them.

Keep lisping away Port Tack. That is really is all you are capable of. Certainly nothing that involves intellect.

[Joe Capitalist]

Yes

Great minds think alike.

[Nordberg]

Presidents actually have little to do with the stock market. It is bigger than what they normally do to it. There is an exception when the dumb shit Trump threatened and instituted tariffs to the horror of almost every economist on the planet. But that flattened out, even after all his bluster.