deliver, As always enjoy reading your comments for next week trades. Selling calls is another idea by getting credits instead of buying puts. If conservative, directly selling call spreads if bearish. I usually started to sell net call first. If the market is against me, I will buy OTM far calls to hedge so becoming call spreads or ratio spreads. qqq option is very liquid. The bid and ask price is small. Avoid to trade 3 time etf options since they are less liquid and they are losing values. For more exposure or bearish, buy/sell more qqq options or buy ITM qqq puts.  Some ideas to share. -jstone.