The Money Angle

after this post you will be sizing bets in your head

One of the most important concepts in risk-taking is bet sizing. Which is unfortunate because people are quite bad at…

1 month ago

the “middle manager”

I ask for your indulgence, for what follows is an informal word-wall connecting conversations I’ve had with some W2 friends.…

2 months ago

futures premium cell

Back in my SIG days, every trader had a cell on their spreadsheet showing the SPUs (the name for SPX…

2 months ago

stock-bond correlation

Return Stacked’s RSSB gives you a dollar of global equities and a dollar of Treasuries on the same dollar of…

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

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

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

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

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