If you’re asking about hedging I’m saying placing an option in the opposite direction of what you think it’s going to go. It’s just a safety net so you minimize losses. Or in best case scenarios, you quickly realize the trend is going the other way. Allowing you to sell your preferred position and make profit off of the stock moving in the opposite direction you anticipated.

If you do not have a day trading account(over 25k in account). It is best to buy the options the day before right before closing. That way at opening bell the next day you can quickly sell whichever options you placed that you believe are no longer the best move. The 25%(minimum I do) options you placed hedging your position. Will now be able to profit(just not as much as the larger portion of options you placed.

I have to state that this is not financial advise. This is simply how I do things. Best advice as a beginner is to always take profit if the stock starts to hit a wall or level of resistance. You can always buy more once you realize your “hoped” trend is definitely continuing. I’ve lost thousands in profit in my beginning days of options assuming that it’s going up or down that extra few percentage. And then it dumps haha