Investors may be too bullish on chip stocks. This options strategy can hedge against a pullback

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Chips remain on fire in 2024 despite the recent volatility in earnings reports.

Investor sentiment unequivocally is that semiconductors will continue to rally into year-end. That bullish consensus makes this former CBOT pit trader take pause, and I believe now is the time to hedge some semiconductor exposure. I want to use put options in the VanEck Semiconductor ETF to mitigate downside risk. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been on a coast-to-coast roadshow, the AI darling has hit a new all-time high of $140.89 on Thursday.

, the Dutch microchip-equipment maker. got taken to the woodshed after saying the market recovery for semiconductors will take longer than expected, sending shares sharply lower. Again, this has been offset as NVDA's CEO consistently has articulated demand is "insane." We have to wait until 11/21 for their earnings. For clarity, I am not walking away from my AI exposure, I just want to hedge and synthetically book profits as SMH is up more than 40% after rising 72% in 2023.

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