VXX - Attractiveness Of Hedging S&P 500 In Current Conditions

In a recent post, I demonstrated how to invert options prices to build the option-implied distribution of future returns. I built the implied distribution of returns on the S&P 500 (using options on [[SPY]]) from April 25^th to December 20^th of 2019. The outlook for returns on SPY are a rational basis upon which to consider the relative merits of options strategies because this distribution reconciles the options prices. Not least because my previous post elicited some discussion of options, I thought it would be interesting to explore various options strategies using

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