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Moontower #324

In this issue: a showdown with yourself unique job opening real-returns trading stock-bond correlation confidence intervals on bounded ranges Friends,…

2 months ago

collar shopping

At the end of July, Dean Curnutt tweeted: The thread should sound familiar. Weeks earlier, Dean tweeted about SNDK vols presenting…

2 months ago

Moontower #323

Friends, I’m visiting my family in NJ so Moontower will return August 12th. That said, today is a longer essay.…

2 months ago

the sound of inevitability

The market is 12-15. 12 bid. 15 offer. The broker sizes up the offer. “How many you got there? How…

2 months ago

A Christian pagan?

Friends, This is the most viral tweet I’ve ever posted. By a full order of magnitude. May you never have…

2 months ago

hedging is for gardeners

Let’s start with this YouTube/Podcast episode where Erik and I discuss hedging. Delta Hedging Cost Benefit Analysis | The Options Trench…

2 months ago

Slop/Counterslop

As of 7/21, Substack has a Pangram integration to scan for how much of a post is written by AI.…

2 months ago

Moontower #322

In this issue: Slop. Counterslop. What are retail option traders up to? Hedging is for gardeners Friends, As of 7/21,…

2 months ago

become an option mixologist

To piggyback off David Epstein’s explanation of chunking, I’ve discussed the technique several times in my writing in the context…

2 months ago

How I Teach Middle Schoolers To Build Stock Portfolios

If you construct a portfolio from 2 stocks and one is $100 and the other is $10, buying a share…

2 months ago