PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ryan McKeon
AU  - Marko Svetina
TI  - Protecting against Loss: <em>Protective Put Strategies</em><br/><em>versus Stop-Loss Strategies</em>
AID  - 10.3905/joi.2017.26.3.065
DP  - 2017 Aug 31
TA  - The Journal of Investing
PG  - 65--76
VI  - 26
IP  - 3
4099  - https://pm-research.com/content/26/3/65.short
4100  - https://pm-research.com/content/26/3/65.full
AB  - The authors compare the effectiveness of two popular strategies for managing risk at the individual stock level: stop-loss orders and long put option positions. They find that the protective put generally produces higher returns than the stop-loss order. This result is consistent across a variety of different market conditions, with the protective put’s higher returns most prominent in high-volatility stocks and winner stocks. The authors consider two possible sources for the difference in returns: the greater precision in exit price provided by the protective put and the opportunity cost of stop-loss activation. They find that the difference in performance can be explained entirely by the greater precision in exit price provided by the put strike price relative to the more uncertain price provided by the stop-loss order.TOPICS: Security analysis and valuation, options