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I try to look for a symmetric trades that benefit from ignoring tail risks.

It also serves as a hedge for my portfolio.

For example, I bought a out of the money put debit spread on SPY with a risk reward of 15 to 1. Looking at market returns, the probability is about 17%.

It's what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls Antifragile, things that gain from disorder. I wrote a post about it.

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I’ll take a look at the article. Thanks for sharing.

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Nice write-up. Financial markets always overshoots on expectation basis. That's how the term 'Buy on Rumour, Sell on Fact' came about.

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