This timely episode gets into just what kind of investment strategy you would have needed to have to capture the huge down move in markets recently and huge spike up in volatility. We talk with Bastian Bolesta, founder and CEO of Swiss-based hedge fund Deep Field Capital, about: designing and implementing effective tail risk strategies, how most of the sell-off has happened in overnight hours, paddle boarding on the Hudson River, whether the “boy” is controlling the machine or the “machine” controlling the boy, Red Cross founder Henry Dunant, the theoretical upper bound of the VIX, squashing the sombrero, and of course…the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Deep Field Capital AG is a purely systematic shop based in Zug, Switzerland trading highly reactive intraday and short-term systematic programs in global futures and equity markets with a positive skew, convex profile in a top-tier institutional setup. They also run a Volatility Arbitrage strategy composed of four different “pillars”:

Calendar spreads in the VIX
VIX/SP spreads
Intraday capture in equity indices
Intraday capture in VIX futures

Note: If you want to skip straight to strategy/market talk, fast forward to 34:37.

Links:

Deep Field Materials
Deep Field Capital: Quantitative Intraday and Short-term Trading Solutions
Deep Field LinkedIn
Contact Deep Field
Books
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Book
The Behavioral Investor by Daniel Crosby

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