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Moontower #311

In this issue: AI leaves the hardest problems to humans The triggering implication of arbitrage theory options rapid fire Nine…

2 days ago

the bias of hedging on implied delta

Tweets Before we get to today’s meat, here are 2 threads spurred by oil’s advance yesterday.   Delta is God…

2 days ago

how to get arbed with perfect information

The “Bridge of Asses” 📺Option Pricing Explained: No Arbitrage + Financial Mathematics from a Quant | 52 min watch Doug Costa (SIG…

2 days ago

hungry eyes

I was at the Collective meet-up in Menlo Park this week (this was the 3rd time I’ve attended and it’s always a…

1 week ago

the real Y2k event

About 15 years ago, I read Drew Magary’s sci-fi novel The Postmortal. The book imagines a society that has created…

1 week ago

N² – n: why shorting is mathematically cursed

Recall the levered silver flows post where we see the quick math of levered ETFs. For a fund to maintain its mandated…

1 week ago

Moontower #310

In this issue: post-privacy: musings as we hear more about Mythos and quantum computing N² - n: why shorting is…

1 week ago

not all averages are created equal

What did we notice? a * b = Mean² − MAD² (where MAD = mean absolute deviation) As soon as…

2 weeks ago

From Text ➡️ Dashboards

We’ll start with some useful resources for the learners, then move to material for traders ready to do stuff. CME…

2 weeks ago

vega’s finishing move

“Vega wounds, gamma kills” is an esoteric expression that’s still common enough that you can google it and return a…

2 weeks ago