TAIL RISK HEDGING (MASTER OPTION TRADER SERIES): Portfolio Protection Without Killing Returns

By Tony Pelz

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 itHow 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 survivableHow 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 breaksHow to construct convex payoff profiles that pay exponentially in a crisis without requiring you to predict timing, magnitude, or catalystHow 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 problemHow 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 entirelyHow 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H15F1KHD
• ISBN13: 9798196156335
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"