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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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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.…

3 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,…

3 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…

4 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…

4 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…

4 months ago