Weighting An Options Pair Trade

2 years ago

An option trader pinged me about a trade between a correlated pair of names whose IV ratio was trading at…

Our minds love to betray us

2 years ago

We weren't searchin' for some pie in the sky, or summit. We were just young and restless and bored. Bob…

Select excerpts from Lawrence Yeo’s How To Calm An Anxious Brain

2 years ago

Select excerpts I can refer back to from How to Calm the Anxious Brain by Lawrence Yeo As I researched…

Look Left

2 years ago

Random personal thing. I’m not a car guy and find vehicle shopping to be a mostly utilitarian exercise. No real…

“Renting A Straddle”

2 years ago

This week, moontower.ai announced several free option calculators with more to follow. 💡These are embeddable so you can add them to your…

When Car Leases Offer Options For Less Than Zero

2 years ago

Car leases are said to be “an option to buy”. Put-call parity is the most important concept to understand about financial options.…

Moontower #229

2 years ago

Friends, The meat of today’s post is below but I’ll just share a post I enjoyed up here: Vaclav Smil…

Using Options Better

2 years ago

While a successful volatility trader’s edge is in discerning relative value between options, they are agnostic on the direction of…

Moontower #228

2 years ago

Friends, It’s graduation season. I always share these 2 posts in May: Wooderson’s Commencement Speech You might recognize “Wooderson” as…

Mermaids, Fireflies, and the Bid-Ask Spread

2 years ago

A reader asks: Do you have any insight into the activities of market makers when they act as authorized participants…