@TMC_REGARD:
This earnings season is a minefield—markets at all-time highs, but the reaction to results is unforgiving. As Goldman Sachs points out, it’s classic “negative asymmetry”: good news gets a shrug, but a miss triggers a cliff-dive. In this kind of environment, risk management isn’t just smart, it’s essential if you want to survive—and thrive. How do you hedge risks when the market feels this stretched? 1. Options as Insurance: The simplest way to protect gains at market highs is buying puts—either on the stocks you own or on broad indices like the S&P 500 (SPY) or Nasdaq (QQQ). Yes, it costs money (like buying insurance), but when a bad earnings print hits and a stock drops 10–15% overnight, those puts suddenly look genius. 2. The Iron Condor for Earnings Volatility: When implied volatili