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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…

3 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…

3 months ago

the iron butterfly

I think about what Matthew Clifford said about technology when he was on Infinite Loops back in 2022 and before…

3 months ago

investing orbits

Here’s a summer reading book rec for investors: My wife and I are both reading this. It’s laugh-out-loud funny. Gary…

3 months ago

present tense

I turn 48 today. Once again grateful that another year of life insurance premium went to waste. It’s a reflective…

3 months ago

Moontower #320

In this issue: investing orbits present tense Friends, I save my editorializing for the section at the end today. Let’s…

3 months ago

“betting as a tax on bullshit”

🎙️Wrong numbers and why they survive | Complex System Podcast Patrick McKenzie interviews famous Wall Street quant and author Aaron Brown(Poker Face…

3 months ago

Delta-hedged risk reversals

We recently added multi-leg support to our Attribution Visualizer, our tool for allowing you to track an option contract’s p/l…

3 months ago

VIX and buy signals

Here’s Victor Haghani: A high VIX1 is widely considered to be one of the cleaner buy signals out there. A…

3 months ago