Buying options is a great way to derisk your portfolio, as your risks are much smaller than trading real stocks for a given position for most thing. Now SELLIN

Buying options is a great way to derisk your portfolio, as your risks are much smaller than trading real stocks for a given position for most thing. Now SELLING Them, that's a different story. Selling positions when you do not have the stock as security to hand over is pretty risky.