While we keep waiting for market breadth to expand, I’m reminded of the synthetic covered call strategy in equities that have bullish upside but you’re just not sure when they will “catch up”.
Creating the synthetic long by buying (deep, typically) in the money calls and selling the same dated and strike puts then selling covered calls against this. Sure, caps the upside, but there doesn’t seem to be much immediate upside in these sideways movers while we wait for Wall Street to broaden their focus…
I think this is in particular useful for certain SaaS names cough DDOG cough , cough NET cough etc.