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Is dynamic hedging a combination of writing covered calls and long puts?

Personal Finance & Money Asked by Seb Maitra on December 14, 2020

Trying to figure out a simplified dynamic hedging strategy without getting into too much math. Based on Antifragile by NN Taleb, it appears an antifragile portfolio could be constructed with short calls (delta-neutral) and long puts. Anyone tried to do this? If so, any comments thoughts will be highly appreciated.

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I don't know a thing about Taleb's Antifragile portfolio structure(s) but I can offer this generalized option commentary per your title:

  • If you add a long put to a covered call and they are of the same series, it's an arbitrage called a conversion

  • If the strike price of the call and the put are different then it's a long stock collar which is synthetically equivalent to a vertical spread. The strikes are typically OTM but that's not a requirement.

I doubt that a long stock collar would qualify as dynamic hedging since the net delta is significantly positive because +100 delta stock exceeds the sum of the two negative OTM option positions.

It would be helpful if you defined what an antifragile portfolio is.

Answered by Bob Baerker on December 14, 2020

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