Money Math

how a high implied vol can be cheap

EWY, the South Korea ETF, was an interesting source of disagreement in our Discord about whether the vol was expensive…

2 months ago

options policework

A moontower user sent this [paraphrased] message in our Discord the morning of Jan 9th: NLR [VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF] had…

2 months ago

the bias of hedging on implied delta

Tweets Before we get to today’s meat, here are 2 threads spurred by oil’s advance yesterday.   Delta is God…

3 months ago

how to get arbed with perfect information

The “Bridge of Asses” 📺Option Pricing Explained: No Arbitrage + Financial Mathematics from a Quant | 52 min watch Doug Costa (SIG…

3 months ago

N² – n: why shorting is mathematically cursed

Recall the levered silver flows post where we see the quick math of levered ETFs. For a fund to maintain its mandated…

3 months ago

not all averages are created equal

What did we notice? a * b = Mean² − MAD² (where MAD = mean absolute deviation) As soon as…

3 months ago

vega’s finishing move

“Vega wounds, gamma kills” is an esoteric expression that’s still common enough that you can google it and return a…

3 months ago

approximating gamma in your head

By now y’all know option traders have the ATM straddle approximation burned into their retina: straddle ≈ .8 Sσ √T…

4 months ago

oil options and the raw gamma paradox

The single biggest adjustment to get my head around when I crossed the chasm from equity options trading to commodity…

4 months ago

the math of investing

As I’ve shared here before, I spun up an investing class for middle and high school kids locally. I am…

4 months ago