Gulati: Antara purchases call options against short positions to cap downside risk
Himanshu Gulati · Himanshu Gulati – Antara Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.19) · Nov 11, 2021 · at 24:32
Himanshu Gulati, founder of Antara Capital, discusses dynamic risk management and asymmetric trade structuring with Corbin Capital Partners CIO Craig Bergstrom.
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“Since our inception example, if we have a short stock position, we buy calls against it because we don't want to be short squeezed out. If we are doing something in the options market, everything's always capped so we can make sure we understand what our downside is to that point.”
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