Selling puts has been one of the most rewarding strategies of this bull market, which is exactly why this Tasty Research segment asks what happens to them when the market drops fast. Sahil and his co-host compare naked short puts against defined risk put spreads across every selloff since 2021, and the pattern is consistent: the naked side gives back far more in each crash, because the tail risk it carries has no floor.
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Chapters
00:00 What happens when it crashes fast
01:15 The study setup
02:53 Cumulative P&L since 2021
04:08 Naked gives back twice as much
04:55 The three reasons losses cluster
05:37 The Vega spike
05:52 Spreads widen when you exit
07:09 Comparing loss by loss
07:34 Why a long selloff hurts most
09:48 Capital allocation and the ...