Dynamic Hedging & Option P/L Decomposition

2 years ago

In Connecting Vol Surfaces To Option P/L, we showed how a position in the 6-month 25d put or 25d call…

understanding the realized vol portion of option p/l

2 years ago

Thursday’s paid post was cutting to the heart of vol trading — dynamic hedging to isolate vol mispricing. There’s a…

why home prices could fall with mortgage rates

2 years ago

Just based on my local observations, it still feels like the bid-ask on residential real estate is wide. I wrote Staring…

Moontower #238

2 years ago

Friends, This week I wrote about real estate thought in Money Angle so to keep the length manageable we’ll just…

Connecting Vol Surfaces To Option P/L

2 years ago

The small cap leg of the rotation in mid-July 2024 can be seen in IWM. I cherry-picked points before the…

“What was your first concert?”

2 years ago

Fresh haircuts. New desk in the house. Yep, school starts this week. I now have a 3rd grader and a…

Moontower #237

2 years ago

Friends, Fresh haircuts. New desk in the house. Yep, school starts this week. I now have a 3rd grader and…

a deeper understanding of vertical spreads

2 years ago

This is part 2 of "building an options chain in your head" In part 1, we reasoned through the following problem…

The “grammar” of trading with SIG’s Todd Simkin

2 years ago

SIG’s Todd Simkin went on Ted Seides’ Capital Allocators podcast recently. I’m biased but Todd’s interviews are some of the…

“This was a vol event”

2 years ago

Equity markets have been crazy. In my caveman view, we just left a world where volatility markets were searching for…