For traders looking for volatility - based protection, the strategists recommend going long the SGI US
Equity Tail Risk Index, which hedges long equity exposure.
Not exact matches
The main purpose behind holding these options is hedging a portfolio against significant negative movement in the value of US
equities, commonly referred to as
tail risk.
In their May 2013 paper entitled «Volatility vs.
Tail Risk: Which One is Compensated in
Equity Funds?»
Spitznagel is a specialist in
tail risk, and so the most intriguing part of Spitznagel's papers is his demonstration of the utility of the
equity q ratio in identifying «susceptibility to shifts from any extreme consensus» because «such shifts of extreme consensus are naturally among the predominant mechanics of stock market crashes.»