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Would you still want to buy put options? Who would sell them to you?

• leetcrew 6y ago
  > From a lay-person's perspective, short selling seems pretty horrible this person is probably not trading options.
• valuearb 6y ago
  Without short sales, could Put options even exist?
  • mikestew 6y ago
    "My put contract says that you have to buy my FooBar shares at $X, despite the last sale price being $Y and $X > $Y." I thought that FooBar would drop down to at least $Y, that's why I bought the options contract. In other words, as long as I have shares to sell, and there's a contract saying that you will buy them from me for a fixed price, then put options could most certainly exist.
    • threedots 6y ago
      The point is that without short selling option MMs couldn't hedge so no one would sell put options.