The point I was trying to make is that you can buy a put only if someone is there selling a put. Once the downward movement of market is confirmed or widely accepted, not many sellers will be around to sell puts.
Thatâs not how options work. You can always transact because the other party is the market maker who has to sell or buy from you. When share price is volatile, the bid/ask become very wide and the premium of the option would shoot up accordingly. To trade options professionally, one need to know the GREEK of option.
Btw, donât worry about the market maker, he knows how to hedge. Having said that, there is max cap of worth that each market maker can transact and an overall cap for all market makers. In practice, not relevant to retail investors/ traders, relevant to hedge fund managers managing billions of dollars.
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Could they be hedging their position while slowly trying to exit the market?
Being big funds, they do not want to loose money and by default sell slowly so that they max output.
See finviz FB and see how Mark Z sells his share, daily a portion. If he sells all of a sudden, FB will touch $1 in 2-3 days and he can not sell it. He almost sold more than 7 Billions in 2019.
You started with book, good read it, slowly test with hypothetical market, and land with VOO, then test/actual with VOO and other stocks. You need to have comfort in dealing with stocks at least 6 months.
Once mastered stock/etf side, you can think about options as this is very sharp to lose/gain.
Any way, you need to know what is best for you. It is exactly like driving a car from local road to highway, you need to find your own way.
Substitute rich guys = Wall Street
Sun rose from the West 
Experts, however, werenât too concerned about the weakness, citing a largely optimistic macroeconomic picture heading into the end of the year.
Jim Cramer
Iâm looking for more reasons for it to go higher other than constant reiterations of analystsâŚ
RBC Capital Marketsâ Lori Calvasina
We need to see a bit more of a dip, I think, before you jump in and buy.
Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group
I think youâll want to buy on the dips here if we get some weakness
@Jil isnât concerned. Apparently @manch isnât concerned since he is happily posting other topics.
However, I was told the crowd is usually wrong 
Wallstreet and most of the media, Analysts, CFA and fund managers are telling retail investors âStay Courseâ, âbuy and holdâ, âdo not time the marketâ and other similar stories.
Wall street makers and big fund managers are using computer power to analyze big data with set of dedicated analysts working on them.
What they are not telling is the hidden hedge action like what Ray Dalio story. Definitely, He knew well ahead and hedged all his stocks with 1 Billion PUTs.
They easily spot the issue and hedge against down fall. It is really hard for individual retail investors to know ahead.
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Manufacturing is weak because of Trumpâs stupid tariffs. Consumer spending is holding up well still. We will kick Trumpâs ass next year and Americaâs golden decade will officially begin. Fasten your seatbelt. 
Do you actually have candidate that can beat Trump? BTW, Bernie and Warren are pro tariffs
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Billionaire Bloomberg.
The numbers are for manufacturing within USA and tariffs apply to imports.
How would have manufacturing come out better in the absence of tariffs?
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Trade imbalance is a real problem, but tariffs are the wrong medicine. Biden can beat Trump in his sleep.
Because trade war adds uncertainty, and you canât plan major expenditure with that overhang. The Fed, I think itâs the St Louis one, publishes periodic interviews with businesses and the number one concern for a while now has been the uncertainty.
What happened last time you said something similar? 
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Bet on reversion to the mean.
He canât get minority votes with stop and frisk.
There is not one inspirational Democratic candidate. If the Democrats donât find another Obama they loose.
There is one. Michelle Obama.
The report that tanked the market this morning. Which reason got cited most often as problem?
WHAT RESPONDENTS ARE SAYING
- âBusiness level is similar to October.â (Computer & Electronic Products)
- âChemical industry has been slow globally, but the curve seems to be flattening.â (Chemical Products)
- âEconomic uncertainty continues. Our outlook on future business is cautious, yet positive.â (Transportation Equipment)
- âEconomy is holding up. Business is staying constant. The same challenges persist â foreign exchange, trade uncertainty and trend changes [for example, sugar reduction].â (Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products)
- âSlowdown in business has us revising our 2020-21 capital spend.â (Petroleum & Coal Products)
- âThe order book continues to shrink below our forecast levels. Weâre unsure at this point how much of the slowdown is tied to certain events [like the General Motors strike], year-end inventory reductions by customers, or a worsening economy. We donât expect clarity on this until early 2020, when we expect to either see restocking orders [a good sign] or not [a bad sign].â (Fabricated Metal Products)
- âDemand has stabilized for the last half of [the fourth quarter], and production will be stable for the rest of this year.â (Machinery)
- âHeading into the holiday season, we are seeing the backlog decrease as new orders for 2020 seem lighter than in past years.â (Plastics & Rubber Products)
- âMarkets have downshifted further. The continued confusion surrounding China trade has kept export markets on edge. Profits are elusive. Cash-flow planning is paramount. The general economy is slowing down.â (Wood Products)
- âIncoming orders and production have ticked back up. Tariffs are still a question.â (Furniture & Related Products)