A traditional way to think of a stock price is the expected value of its future prices weighted by their…
This is a fun one. A good friend and mentor from the pit sent me this (lightly edited and hyperlinked):…
Recently, I’ve been writing a lot about option funding — implied rates, reversal/conversions, and financing stock positions, and even a…
Here’s an FYI that reinforces a lot of moontower 2025 writing on option synthetic futures. This is from my IBKR…
We’ve been talking about option funding stuff recently in the paid Thursday issues. Recently, I had a trader ask for…
This is the follow-up to last week’s the easiest win in options is for stock traders. In that post, we started…
Most people who get into options are seduced by levered returns, but for the relationship to go from a fling…
Yet another vibe-code project. This one went viral because…it’s a game! It's a replica of the one we trained on…
Today is a continuation of calendar spreads through the eyes of a vol trader. Recap That post is a response to…
I used a pattern to explain it to my 12-year-old on our car ride on Monday. Start with: 8*8 =…