Why I Started The Collar Code
I built The Collar Code because I wanted to bridge the gap between "Buy and Hold" and professional-grade risk management.
Instead of spending my weekends looking at spreadsheets, I wrote a custom Python engine to do the heavy lifting. My script scans hundreds of tickers every week, filtering through thousands of data points to find the rare opportunities where the math actually makes sense: High upside potential with a strictly defined downside floor.
How a "Collar" Works (The Simple Math)
A collar is essentially a "safety suit" for your stock position. It consists of three parts:
The Stock: You own 100 shares of a company.
The Floor (Protective Put): You buy a Put option. If the stock crashes, this put acts like an insurance policy, allowing you to sell your shares at a guaranteed price.
The Ceiling (Covered Call): You sell a Call option to someone else. They pay you "rent" (premium) for the right to buy your stock if it goes up.
The Strategy: We use the "rent" from the call to offset the "insurance" of the put. In some cases, the call credit completely covers the put cost, meaning you get a "Free" or "Net Credit" collar.
What Makes Our Code Different?
In the world of finance, "Midpoint" prices are a myth. You rarely get filled at the exact middle of the bid and the ask.
The Collar Code uses what we call Quarter-Point Logic. Our engine assumes you’ll pay a little more for your insurance and receive a little less for your rent. By building this "slippage" into our math, the trade ideas you see in your inbox are much more realistic for your actual brokerage account.
Why Subscribe?
Every week, I run the engine and send the top opportunities directly to you. No fluff, no "hype" stocks—just cold, hard math for the defensive investor who wants to lock in gains and sleep soundly.
