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Tail Risk Hedging (Master Option Trader Series): Portfolio Protection Without Killing Returns

by Tony Pelz
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798196156335
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 142
  • Original Price: GBP 14.72
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 200 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Investments & Securities / Options

Tail risk is the event that lives outside the model. Not the two-sigma drawdown that options pricing already discounts, the six-sigma dislocation that arrives with no warning, prices nothing like it should, and clears out traders who had everything right except one thing: they were not positioned for the world to briefly stop working. Every sophisticated options trader eventually discovers that knowing the Greeks and running a correct portfolio framework is not the same as surviving a regime break. This book teaches you how to do both.

You will learn:

  • How to define and measure tail risk in an options book: the precise difference between normal volatility risk and true discontinuous event risk, and why your existing stress tests are probably not finding it
  • How to build systematic Put protection without bleeding premium into a hedge that never pays: spread structures, roll schedules, and the cost-management disciplines that make a long-term hedging programme survivable
  • How VIX Call overlays and variance swaps function as tail hedges, when each is appropriate, and what they actually cost you across the long stretches when nothing breaks
  • How to construct convex payoff profiles that pay exponentially in a crisis without requiring you to predict timing, magnitude, or catalyst
  • How to identify positions in your book that appear uncorrelated and become violently correlated the moment VIX spikes and how to hedge the correlation itself before it becomes a problem
  • How to size and maintain tail hedges across three distinct market regimes: low-volatility grind, moderate stress, and full dislocation including when to add, when to roll, and when to take the hedge off entirely
  • How to run two complete tail-event scenarios, a slow-burn institutional deleveraging and a single-session crash, from initial trigger through active portfolio management and post-event reconstruction

This is not a book about being afraid of markets. It is a book about what happens to traders who are not afraid enough, and what the ones who survive the breaks did differently.

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