VIDEO: Tail Risk Hedging, Part 2 — How to Build a Black Swan Hedge
(Almost) for Free + how some of the world's most successful investors prepare for events that most people believe will never happen.
GYP Office Hours · Black Swan Hedge Series · Session 2
Hi GYP Member,
In Part 2 of our Tail Risk Hedging series, we moved beyond simply discussing hedges and began exploring how some of the world’s most successful investors prepare for events that most people believe will never happen.
The reality is that markets spend most of their time moving gradually higher.
Then, without warning, something breaks.
COVID.
The Volmageddon volatility event.
The banking crisis.
The next Black Swan will be different, but one thing is certain:
It will arrive when the majority of investors are least prepared.
That is why this session focused on the philosophy and the mechanics of tail-risk hedging — and this time we didn’t just talk about it. We placed the trades live, on screen, in a real Grow Your Pile portfolio, walking through every unit and every dollar.
This One Is for Paid Members
This session was one of the most valuable hours we’ve recorded — so the full walk-through below is for paid GYP members.
Here’s a taste of what’s behind the wall:
The exact 4-trade “cheap put” ladder we placed live — and the surprisingly small budget that funds it (hint: on a $100K account it’s roughly $100 a month, not $5,000)
The 3×5 put ratio backspread built into a program that ends with 36 long “crash” puts on essentially for free — the doubling trick that gets you there
The one rule that decides whether a hedge actually protects you (most traders get the units backwards)
The harvesting secret — the part that’s harder than putting the hedge on, and where most people give back the entire payoff
Two bonus structures — including one backtested at +$53,000 on a single unit
If you’ve ever wondered how Universa made a fortune in COVID while everyone else panicked — this is the mechanical playbook.
👉 Become a paid Grow Your Pile member to watch the full session + read the complete breakdown
The market doesn’t reward the trader who knows that hedges exist. It rewards the one who knows how to build them, finance them, and harvest them.
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