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implying the cost of carry in options

This is the follow-up to last week’s the easiest win in options is for stock traders. In that post, we started…

12 months ago

machine-readable

🎙️Media M&A (Business Breakdowns) In this interview, Matt Reustle talks to Blake Saunders, a media investment banking expert and a partner…

12 months ago

how overconfidence and confirmation bias create reinforcing loops

Below is an excerpt from the presentation I did at McCombs Business School at UT Austin. It’s more hands-on to…

12 months ago

what happened to summer reading?

My 12-year-old is a compulsive reader. To the point of me telling him, put the book down, go do stuff.…

12 months ago

Moontower #288

Friends, My 12-year-old is a compulsive reader. To the point of me telling him, put the book down, go do…

12 months ago

my read on the market from the option lens

SP500 is up about ~33% since the April low. To choose a different reference point, since the Feb high water…

1 year ago

Do my wife and I have separate accounts and other personal money questions

While our exchange students bid us farewell yesterday, this week, much of my east coast fam is visiting to celebrate…

1 year ago

exchange student week

For the second time in three years, we participated in a program to host Japanese exchange students for a week.…

1 year ago

Moontower #287

Friends, If you read nothing else in today’s letter, hear me now: THANK YOU. Thank you from me. Thank you…

1 year ago

the easiest win in options is for stock traders

Most people who get into options are seduced by levered returns, but for the relationship to go from a fling…

1 year ago