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Horse Cove Partners LLC "Profiting from the art and science of taking risk.®"

Horse Cove Partners LLC is a dynamic option trading firm built on decades of options trading and investment experience. Based in Atlanta, Georgia and founded by industry professionals Sam DeKinder and Kevin Ellis, Horse Cove Partners serves clients' alternative investment needs; aiming to deliver absolute returns from a forward-thinking investment alternative harvesting option premiums. Aiming for absolute returns for our clients' separately managed accounts may be a source of achieving significant investment goals. With Horse Cove Partners, our options strategy is executed weekly. We utilize risk-based formulaic method trading options, seeking absolute returns. In today’s volatility that sounds big, and in fact, it is. Our clients select us because of: Trust, Confidence, in a proven investment methodology grounded in mathematics, statistics and more than 60 years of market data. We use that history and statistics to execute for our clients. And Results. We invite you to explore our website and learn more about our investment process. If you are not familiar with option premium strategies, please view our Basic Introduction to Options Trading video.

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about us

Horse Cove Partners was founded by Sam DeKinder and Kevin Ellis in January of 2013 with the commitment to help grow client’s assets with a highly disciplined investment strategy, replicated weekly, to extract absolute returns from the market by trading short volatility option spreads. More

investment process

The science of what we do is based on a modified Black Scholes model. This takes into account the market movements at given levels of volatility in a given period of time. More

Why Choose Us

The average annual rolling returns (any 12 consecutive months) are 13.63% (results through May 31, 2021) net of fees and expenses.
The returns from the option contracts we trade are tax advantaged. Under IRS Sect. 1256, the returns from selling options are taxed to the investor as 60% long term capital gains and 40% short term capital gains.
One of the key components of our strategy is that is does not need a special market environment to be effective. That means we can execute our trading strategy in rising, falling and flat market environments.
By sticking to our time tested methodology, we can execute trades with confidence of success based on time and history. While the past is not a guarantee of future success, we can learn from the past. For example, did you know that since 1990, when the VIX ® has been under 20%, that the S&P 500 has not declined more than 5% in any week? While this in and of itself is no guarantee that it will not happen in the future; it is relying on favorable probabilities of success like this, that in the aggregate produce positive returns for our clients.
Sam DeKinder and Kevin Ellis have over 75 years of combined industry and business expertise that is available to the clients of Horse Cove Partners LLC to assist in their investment success.