‘There’s Only One Way I Know to Avoid Leverage’ – But Should You? In Defense of Leverage with Our ETF Expert

I’ve been covering the options market since before there was a Great Financial Crisis, and no one will ever convince me that leverage is a bad thing.

In fact, it is written across my heart that “leverage” is one of the primary benefits of options trading, since buying a call option affords you control over 100 shares of the underlying asset at a fraction of the cost of buying those same shares outright.