Re:Offline Algorithms in Low-Frequency Trading
by hannofcart on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:50PM
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Another way to reduce tail risk when selling options is to simply hedge with a protective call/put at a higher or lower strike respectively. Sufficiently far off strikes will have minimal impacts on returns while reducing tail risk.
The idea of using multiple symbols like SPY and TLT is to reduce the tail risk. But in the end there is still tail risk like for example in the crash of 2015. Making the strategy delta neutral with hedging could improve it but I never completed that part.
There is an interesting book with all the math by Euan Sinclair about option writing and how to minimize the risk if you are interested.