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The Collar Advantage

Demystifying Option Collars for DIY Investors

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Dec 04, 2025
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Your shirt has a collar, your dog wears a collar. But what about your investment strategy? Rob Isbitts, founder of Sungarden Investment Publishing and creator of ETFYourself.com, has written about the risk management and return enhancing benefits of option collars at Barchart and Seeking Alpha. He used them extensively during his former career as investment advisor and mutual fund manager.

Now, he’s put decades of insight and experience on this topic into a plain-language strategy paper. The Collar Advantage: Demystifying Option Collars for DIY Investors.

This strategy paper is being shared only with long-term paid subscribers of our work. If you sign up for 1 month of ETF Yourself ($15 per month or $150 for the full year)), we’ll make it available to you as a thanks for trying the service.

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