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Nubz's avatar

Thanks for the post kris....

If one choses to put on a pair trade, long TLT and short gold. How does one go about hedging here, should both trades be considered individually and hedge accordingly or some other math way?

Kris Abdelmessih's avatar

Complicated question. You can manage them independently or as a pair (this will likely require imposing an intentional bias) since correlations can move around as the "story" behind the asset returns change.

Posts on the math include Weighting An Options Pair Trade and From CAPM to Hedging

I'd stay away from a pair trade personally and think of them independently as a retail trader

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Aug 18, 2024
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Kris Abdelmessih's avatar

you'd be shorting the election move (which is fine just important to understand what's happening)

this might help

https://www.moontower.ai/options-calculators/event-volatility-extractor

Dalton Brown's avatar

Thanks. That helps a lot. I should add that i was hoping to take advantage of the relatively expensive vol over 3 months while still being long delta and vol in December