Capability

Risk-Aware Investment Guidance

Sizing, hedging, and exit discipline that keeps a volatile asset class inside its risk budget.

What this covers

The work, in substance

The risk in digital assets isn't volatility — it's discovering you took more risk than you intended after the fact. Risk-aware guidance turns sizing into a deliberate decision and drawdowns into a planned response.

Every position carries an explicit risk budget, a defined trigger for action, and a written response.

Deliverables

What you receive

01Position-level risk budget and stop-loss thresholds
02Hedging or reduction plan for elevated regimes
03Drawdown response playbook agreed in advance
04Quarterly risk and exposure reporting
Approach

How we deliver

  1. Step 01
    Budget

    Define how much loss is acceptable on each position in absolute terms.

  2. Step 02
    Hedge

    Where appropriate, layer hedges sized to actual exposure — never speculative.

  3. Step 03
    Respond

    Document the action plan for each drawdown band before markets test it.

Considerations

Risks we address

The non-obvious factors we explicitly plan for so they don't surface as surprises later.

Volatility regimes

Risk budget is recalibrated as realised vol shifts.

Hedge availability

Hedging instruments thin out in stress; we plan for that explicitly.

Behavioural drift

Pre-committed responses prevent reactive decisions in drawdowns.

Tax of stops

Realised losses interact with broader tax position; coordinated up front.

In Practice

An anonymised example

Scenario

A client held a sizeable BTC position and wanted protection through a known volatility window without exiting. We sized a put-spread overlay to cap drawdown at 18%, documented the unwind path, and held the underlying through the event.

Results
  • Realised drawdown contained inside the agreed band
  • Underlying position held intact for the long-term thesis
  • Hedge unwound on a defined schedule, not a reactive trade

Details altered to protect client identity

FAQ

Common questions

We define them with you in writing in advance. Execution remains yours, but the trigger levels and the response are pre-committed so the decision isn't made under stress.
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