12/21/2025: Moontower Wrapped 2025
12/14/2025: the middle class is no place to stay, option exercise and pair calculators
12/7/2025: backgammon, useful reflexes as the world turns into a casino
11/23/2025: slow is smooth and smooth is fast, a financial death wish
11/16/2025: AI deployment phase?, the arbitrage reflex
11/9/2025: Using AI to build stuff, deworsification?
11/2/2025: the sauna overfit, prediction markets mania
10/26/25: when quitting is ambitious, vol trading is easier than directional trading
10/19/2025: can you read better than a 4th grader?, The Theta Pig Letters
10/12/2025: what happened to summer reading?, which jeff lebowski is the villain?
10/5/2025: a miracle, exchange students, do my wife and I have separate accounts?
9/28/2025: reality is more than memes, insider selling that’s…bullish?
9/21/2025: i can’t wait to replace myself, learn put/call parity with a free game, 99.8 vs 99.9
9/14/2025: Presentation for kids and adults, gamma scalping simulator
9/7/2025: The GFC through a quant’s eyes, how I understand the Black-Scholes formula
8/24/2025: RTFM, PLTR to $40, how moontower started
8/17/2025: hey jealousy, timing the market
8/10/2025: is housing cooked?, the mended fence
7/27/2025: pushing back on incentives, kids as market-makers, the easy way to “risk-adjust” returns
7/20/2025: old-timey summer, old-timey thoughts
6/22/2025: Hiring at Moontower, STFU, 9:16
6/15/2025: alien concert, hedge tool, vol trader interview questions
6/1/2025: my inheritance was nationalized, options as LEGOs, TSLA covered call study
5/25/2025: Perceived History, Improper Fractions: getting implied vol from a straddle
5/18/2025: Cliff Notes miss the point, Upstream Gifting, correlation skew
5/11/2025: by the kilo, new Strike Visualizer feature
5/4/2025: “let me AI that for you”, shorter VRP lookbacks, more examples of vol goggles
4/27/2025: meme, the trading version of not being in on the joke
4/20/2025: college essays, VCs as market makers, how derivatives become the underlying
4/13/2025:bear on a unicycle, getting hired in trading, inverted term structure trap
3/30/2025: helping rachel
3/23/2025: a stoner dad (finally) teaches his kids options, one-touch
3/16/2025: vol tells you nothing about extreme moves, surfing volatility
3/9/2025: LLM Cheatsheet, are you incinerating money when you sell your house?
3/2/2025: rent vs buy, evil empire, unpleasant chores
2/23/2025: we’ll all be selling placebos in the future
2/17/2025: the easiest thing on my to-do list, the right bogey for a trade
2/2/2025: when a point of view becomes mandatory
1/26/2025: fi-douche-iary, your own game
1/19/2025: over-the-shoulder substance, anchor yourself
1/12/2025: Jokers Everywhere, The Moontower Discord
1/5/2025: Unpacking charts, holiday gaming
12/22/2024: Moontower Wrapped 2024
12/15/2024: 2 important ideas for traders, a tax trend you will hear more about
12/8/2024: the truth about online sports betting, “a sale is made on EVERY call”
11/17/2024: “Alexa, quiz me on photosynthesis”, Trickle-down f-innovation
11/10/2024: what i’m reading, translating to “option surface” language
11/3/2024: your own indie band, stepping through an oil put option trade
10/27/2024: pushing my kids, ETF slop, diversification as a negatively priced lunch
10/20/2024: “world’s worst time traveler” edition
10/13/2024: boredom risk, entitled to that alien life, portfolio vol 101
10/06/2024: backsolving your ride on earth, investing in the unknowable
9/29/2024: the movie you saw too young, understanding vertical spreads
9/22/2024: “how did you solve that math problem?”, derivative income ETF comparisons
9/15/2024: a riddle related to American-style options, podcast interviews
9/8/2024: interpreting skew, arbitrage pricing sets up opportunities to fundamental investors
8/25/2024: how many coin flips until your goal?, GLD vol post-mortem
8/18/2024: why home prices can fall with mortgage rates, on option p/ls
8/11/2024: Your First Concert, Gambling Skills, Realized Vol Illusions
8/4/2024: Cousin Camp 3, Learn Trading From A JS Alum, Carvana sandbags
7/28/2024: The No Name Album, the progression of investment skill
7/21/2024: Meaning of Life, Impatient
7/14/2024: The Gasoline of The Internet, Probability Courses
6/16/2024: Status Symbols, Narrating An Option Trade, Dad Rock
6/9/2024: Wario Twitter, More On TIPs
6/2/2024: Impedance Mismatch
5/19/2024: Options Offered Below Zero, “Renting A Straddle”, Look Left
5/12/2024: Inspiration Season, Figgie
5/5/2024: The Essential Paul Graham, “Know Nothing” Sizing
4/28/2024: Growth rate = 70% * (doublings/years)
4/21/2024: Commitment, Everything Is Going Up Because A Lot Of Money’s Being Made
4/14/2024: Getting The Most Out Of Twitter, Comparative Advantage, Investing During Inflationary Periods
3/31/2024: So Connected We’re Lonely, Gambling and “Free” Markets
3/24/2024: Trade or Tighten’, Does That Include Me?
3/17/2024: The Moontower Formula, A Visual Primer For Understanding Options
3/10/2024: When The Camera’s Not Rolling, Career Advice For Quants
3/3/2024: Fertilizer vs Airplanes, Kelly Math Weirdness
2/25/2024: My grandma is $24.05 bid, stop embarrassing yourself
2/18/2024: Getting Paid To Flip Million Dollar Coins
2/11/2024: cool story dad
2/4/2024: Crossing Over Zero
1/28/2024: Kiyosaki Without The Brainworms, How Skewed Returns Distort Mean-Variance Intuition
1/21/2024: Announcing moontower.ai
1/14/2024: It’s Not About Me That’s The Point
1/7/2024: Risk Depends On The Resolution, Gamily Game Stuff
12/10/2023: Bridge Of Asses
12/3/2023: Generosity, Markets As Biology (Still), Entertainment Recs
11/26/2023: Make Yourself Future Proof
11/19/2023: Responsibility, Risk Tolerance, Positional Option Trading
11/12/2023: Explanations Aren’t Enough, 2 Sides of Compounding, Custom Nikes
11/5/2023: On Hidden Potential, Real Estate Brokerage, Return vs Volatility
10/29/2023: The Midpoint Of 1 to 9 is…3?, Pitbulls Testimonial, Timeless Quant Bits
10/22/2023: Explorables, The Creep of Arbitrage Means Investing Is Mostly A Faith Exercise
10/15/2023: I Tried To Buy TIPs And Failed
10/8/2023: Slashie, The MAD Straddle
10/1/2023: Born On Third (Moontower #200)
9/24/2023: Matt Levine’s Nerdcall, Where Investment Returns Come From
9/17/2023: Reactance, Risk Parity
9/10/2023: The Pods On Top Of The Food Chain
8/27/2023: The Reading Nook, Investing Ed
8/20/2023: Being Stuck, I Had A Financial Adventure This Week
8/13/2023: Hardcore History, Sports Analytics
07/23/2023: Happiness is Bullshit, Covered Calls Are Still Just A Vol Trade
07/09/2023: GPT Resources, What We Can Learn From Vertical Spreads
06/11/2023: Tahoe Dance Floor, Captain Sonar
5/21/2023: Math Games With Bad Drawings, Masochism Catch-Up
5/14/2023: “I Love Individuals, I Hate Groups”, Learn Investing Without The Brainworms, Variance Time
5/7/2023: Life As A Tournament, You Think You’re Trading Vol…But Are You Even?
4/30/2023: Learning To Appreciate Learning, The UNG Experience, 90s Teen Dies Of Cringe
4/23/2023: Bootstrapping Agency Thru Education, “Trader” Is A Vague Term, The Zero-Strike Put
4/16/2023: The Sympathizer, Financial Hacking, The Crossing Guard
3/19/2023: GPT, If You Wait For All The Info You’ll Be Too Late, Beating The SP500 > Winning The NBA Title
3/12/2023: Brain Plug-In, Financial Literacy, Mock Trading
3/5/2023: Homework, Reasoning Through A Housing Trade Out Loud, The Snake Eyes Option
2/26/2023 It’s Not The Merit It’s The Price, Covered Call ETFs, Practice Pricing Options By Hand
2/19/2023 Cutting A Hole In Your Fence, Spending For Self-Discovery, Normalizing Strike Distances
2/12/2023: Rut Removal Machine, CAGR vs Mean Returns In The Wild, Log Returns Simplified
2/5/2023: Fictionary, Well What Did You “Expect”?
01/29/2023: Parenting Is Personal, Practice Second Gear Thinking, Sell Your Investing Books For Boardgames
01/22/2023: Survey Results, A Socratic Dissection Of An Option Trade, Moontower Munchies
01/15/2023: The Dizziness of Freedom, Implied Forwards, Gravity Problems
01/08/2023: White Lotus Rorschach, Liquidity Ostrich, Perspective On Aging
12/11/2022: Moontower Wrapped For 2022, A Subscriber Survey
12/4/2022: Skynet Is Already A Better Dad Than Me, Calibrated Confidence, Books For Kids
11/27/2022: Affirmations & North Stars, Shopping List of finance Books
11/20/2022: The Podcast I Listen To With My 9-Year-Old, Learning Is Behavior Change, Fermenting Ideas
11/13/2022: The Investing Version Of “Nothing Good Happens After Midnight”, Leave It Better Than You Found It
11/6/2022: I Swear It’s Not Old School, An Intuitive Trip From Probability To Correlation
10/30/2022: SanFransicko Seduction, “Do You Even Trade Bro?”, Digital Roots and Wonder
10/23/2022: Indulging Your Dormant Generative Urges, Trading Is A Team Sport
10/16/2022: A Drawer Of Curiosities, Bet Sizing Is Not Intuitive
10/09/2022: Parking Spot Empathy, Should You Trade Options, Midwit Traps
10/02/2022: Staring Out The Window, Trading vs Investing, 13-year Wedding Anniversary
09/25/2022: Redshirts and Ouija Boards, Finance As A Laboratory For Decision-Making
9/18/2022: On Diversity, Superforecasting, The Temple Rave
9/11/2022: On Sponsorship, The Most Underrated Finance YouTube Channel, StockSlam Sessions Announcement
9/05/2022: The Engine Model, “The Unplugged Controller”, Follow-up Riddles
8/28/2022: Ambiguity, Another Kind of Mean, Am I The Only Sexist?
8/14/2022: Happiness Lotto, When Crypto Grifters Do Econ, The Juicy Stuff Doesn’t Hit The Pit
8/07/2022: Open Source Livin, Commodities As Risk Transfer Markets, 2-Hour Cocktail Party
7/31/2022: Relentlessly Inspiring, Structuring Shorts, Cousin Camp
07/24/2022: Ambition As An Anxiety Disorder, The Benefit Of Betting Culture, More Mauboussin
07/17/2022: Mid-Summer Update, On Bullshit In Investing, Bad Lip Reading
06/05/2022: Compass, The Success Paradox, Start Of Summer
05/29/2022: Humility As Kindness, Investing Q&A
05/22/2022: Creativity Is Agency, My Investing Shame Is Your Gain
05/15/2022: Thoughts For New Grads, Greeks Are Everywhere
05/08/2022: 3-Card Macro, “Invisible Fist”, Redistribution Finds A Way
05/01/2022: Grab Bag (Elon, RE, Tutoring), ELI5 Gamma
04/24/2022: Itchy Blankets, Honest Mirrors
04/17/2022: Why I Share, Can Your Manager Solve Betting Games With Known Solutions?
04/03/2022 Q1 Writing Recap, Finance Guilt
03/27/2022: If You Make Money Every Day, You’re Not Maximizing
3/20/2022: There’s Gold In Them Thar Tails Part 2, Momentum Psychology
3/13/2022: From CAPM To Hedging, The Laws of Trading
3/6/2022: Unlock One Another, The Challenge of Outperformance, Helping Ukraine
02/27/2022 There’s Gold In Them Thar Hills, Matt Levine Compilation, Rise Of The AMMs
02/20/2022: Lessons From Susquehanna, Composer, Bel Air
02/13/2022: The Best Way To Complain, Volatility Still Matters For Buy-And-Hold, Notion Stuff
02/06/2022: Are You A Pro?, Permission To Be Serious, Meatspace Wordle
01/30/2022: The Neil Young Gambit, The Seeds Of Sports Nostalgia
01/23/2022: Generational Abuse, What Part Of Selling Calls Is “Income”?
01/16/2022: Putting Moloch To Rest, The Rescue
01/09/2022: Don’t Look Up, It’s Moloch
12/19/2021: Unibrow, Wrapping 2021
12/5/2021: Picking Off My 3rd Grader, Spotify Wrap Crowdsource
11/28/2021: Selling Calls: It Might Be Passive, But It Ain’t Income
11/21/2021: I-Bonds For You, Links To Make Sense Of Markets Today (Bubbles, NFTs, Quant Topics)
11/14/2021: Crowdsourced Career Advice, When To Combine Insurance and Investment Products
11/07/2021: Using The TSLA Price Endgame To Understand Options
10/31/2021: Cassette Liner Nostalgia, [Macro] Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Make A Playlist For Baby
10/24/2021: Review Of Book Reviews, Financial Statements For A Kid, Sheng Wang
10/17/2021: A Quick Hop From Note-Taking To Writing Online, Widowmakers, A Cleaner Dashboard
10/10/2021: Monty Hall Is More Than A Game, Portfolio Theory Tells Us To Have Hobbies
10/03/2021: Teach A Math Idea To Internlize It, Poker Is A Bad Analogy For Investing
09/26/2021: On Self-Renewal, Reader Story About The Grind Of Trading, “Friendcatcher”
09/19/2021: Channeling Motivation, Assorted Real Estate Thoughts
09/12/2021: Back In The Saddle After 2 Months Off
07/11/2021: Inspiring Jaws, SuperMugatu with Lindzon, Bits of DFW
06/27/2021: Follow Up To “The R Word”, Not Getting Screwed On Comp, Disneyworld Tips
06/20/2021: The “R” Word
06/13/2021: The Option Cage, Investing Books For A Teenager
06/06/2021: Mindset Boosters, Option Lenses, Smartless
05/30/2021: Talking To Diamond Hands, On #Voltwit Melees, Meet Tina Lindstrom, “Murph”
05/23/2021: I Misapplied My Trading Mindset, Why Investing Feels Like Astrology
05/16/2021: Interviewing Candidates, An Interview With An Independent Option Trader, Hunter S At The Derby
05/09/2021: Thinking About Doing, Understanding Vega Risk, Pirates Arb BTC, Mother’s Day
05/02/2021: You Are Not A Profile Bio, A Quick Thought On Hedging Tail Options, Moontower Index Of Influential Posts
04/25/2021: The Energy To Stay Unique, Shorting In The Time Of ShitCos, Rock-Skipping & Schitt
04/18/2021: Understanding Edge, Real Talk On Options Trading, Insights From Not Boring’s Hypergrowth
04/11/2021: Twitter Reminds Me Of The Trading Pits, On Delta Hedging
04/04/2021: Berksons Paradox, SIG’s Focus on Option Theory and Decisions, Interview Questions
03/28/2021: Cultural Flashback, Crowdsourced Personal Finance
03/21/2021: Seeing Sociopaths, Directional Edge Vs Carry, Digital Learning, My Favorite St. Paddys
03/14/2021: 100th Moontower, How Much Is “Rich”?, Social Media Guidelines
03/07/2021: Wealth Tax Meta, Directional Option Trades, Shannon Hoon, The Market Maker’s Life Video
02/28/2021: Reading Over A Smart Guy’s Shoulder, Moontower Volatility Wiki
02/21/2021: ERCOT Island, A Market Maker Perception Of PFOF, Dicey For Brisket
02/14/2021: Progressive Bikeshedding, Microstructure Links, V-Day Reminds Me Of Stupid Times
02/07/2021: Sparking An Interest In Coding, How Options Confuse Directional Traders
01/31/2021: Slatestarcodex is Back, Riffing on WSB
01/24/2021: Acceptance Parenting, Riffs on Leitner’s Upside Digitals, Artistic Writing
01/17/2021: It’s Good To Be Rich: Pandemic Edition, Social Harmony As Collateral, Tech Bubble Insights
01/10/2021: Andreessen on Education, Prices Are More Than Expectations, Break Your Brain
01/03/2021: Goal: Not Lose To a Kid, @10kdiver, Favorite Podcast of 2020
12/13/2020: ‘Deserve’ Makes My Skin Crawl, Gift Guide, 2020 Writing Recap
12/06/2020: My Trigger Word, Measurement Not Prediction, Spotify Wrapped
11/29/2020: YIMBY Paradox, Options Textbook Rec, More Math and Chess Links
11/22/2020: Let Chess Help Kids, Vol Premia Justification, Sources to Teach Kids Math
11/15/2020: Love/Hate CA, ‘Volatility Is A Risk’ Strawman, Decomplicate
11/01/2020: Working For Free, Covid + Real Estate, The Meme Costume
10/25/2020: Snowflakes vs Lemmings, What’s Liquidity Worth?, Save Connor
10/18/2020: Hacker Humor, DFW Humor, How Compounding Alters Path, Fun Stuff To Teach Kids
10/11/2020: EVH Forever, Macro From 1st Principles, Pseudoscience Markets via XKCD
10/4/2020: Ideology Sounds Like Idiocy, Scratch Jr, Grooving For 11 Years
09/27/2020: Are You Sure You Know How To Compare Home Prices?, $ Saved > $ Earned, Pink Floyd & Slash
09/20/2020: Resisting Arguments, Doubling Down On Wrong Beliefs, The Cure For Magical Thinking
09/13/2020: If Trump Liked Masks, Adopting Beliefs, This Is Fine
09/06/2020: Literary Version Of A Chart Crime, Reserve Currency As A Dutch Disease
08/30/2020: Chart Crimes, Straddles Vs Volatility, T’Challa Is A Real Leader
08/23/2020: Homeschooling Starter, The 2016 Binary Trump Straddle, Channeling Greg Giraldo
8/16/2020: We Don’t Need No Education, Helping Beirut
8/9/2020: Gap Year & Signaling Value, Marketing Yourself, Camp ZoMaZaMa
8/2/2020: Video Game Veto, A Newsletter Living, Bay Area Quick Trips
7/26/2020: Welcome To The Machine, Positional Scarcity, Excel Love
07/19/2020: In Defense Of Self-Help, You Don’t See The Whole Picture, DCF As A Lower Bound
07/12/2020: Summer Birthdays, Real Market Vs Stock Market, Pink Floyd Meditation
07/05/2020: We Are All Relative Value Traders, The Diversification Imperative, Codenames Telepathy
06/28/2020: Thinking Like A Trader, Take Good Notes, A Drink For “No Soul” Simmons
06/21/2020: The Antidote To Abstraction: Show Up
06/14/2020: Trevor and Chappelle, Combination Math, Option Education, Hertz Roulette, Genius Square
06/07/2020: Part Of The Solution, Lessons From The .50 Delta Option
05/31/2020: Preserving Habits From COVID, The “No Easy Trades Principle”, School’s Out
05/24/2020: WFH: Be Excited Without Being A Sucker, Deux Ex Machina, Felder Makes It Count
05/17/2020: For My Cancelled Reunion, Geo-arbitrage, Thoughts on Monopoly As A Teaching Tool
05/10/2020: Wooderson’s Commencement Speech, Shorting Bimodal Stocks, For Mother
05/03/2020: When Smart People Have Bad Ideas, Money From First Principles, It’s Hard To Hedge Inflation
04/26/2020: When Equality Is Cruel, Negative Prices Make Sense, Self-Doubt, Gratitude/Honesty Hacks
04/19/2020: WFH Guilt, Moontower Money Wiki, Lessons from Kathleen Mercury, Bikes and Potty Training
4/12/2020: Pulling Earnings From The Distant Future, Moontower Retirement Model, The Ibis
4/5/2020: Borders Are Subjective, Is Volatility Risk?, Mountain Time
3/29/2020: 21st Century Cover Letter, The Seppuku Portfolio, Zoom Culture
3/22/2020: Build Your Own Cabinet, Should You Buy Stocks Now?, Innumeracy
3/15/2020: Stop Introspecting and Move, Distance Learning Links, Rad Reads Testimonial
3/8/2020: A Virus of Cognitive Errors, A Recipe For Overpaying, Do Books “Work”?, A Canine Uprising
2/29/2020: Dinosaur Markets, COVID-19 and Markets, Housel’s 100 Ideas, Meb Faber’s Investing Pyramid
2/23/2020: My Career Origin Story, Professional Investors Misunderstand Fees, The Egg, Subculture Envy
2/16/2020: “Avoid Boring People…Really?”, Multi-Armed Bandits, A Simple Rule for Giving
2/9/2020: Tails Explained, How Tails Constrain Your Investments, Books That Influenced Me
2/2/2020: On Grit, Market Mutations, Negotiating Pay, “Sportsball”
1/26/2020: Doctors For Fasting, Sacrifice To The Delta Gods, 60s Nostalgia
1/19/2019: A Note From The ER, Investing is Biology Not Physics, Concussions and Santa Claus Amnesia
1/12/2020: How You Say > What You Say, Links to Learn Finance, Interest for 2020
12/8/2019: Littlewood’s Law in Media, Fave Finance Blogs I Found in 2019, Moontower Top Posts in 2019
12/1/2019: Moontower Gift Guide, Your Portfolio Intuition Sucks, Dining Recs From 2019
11/24/2019: Self-Made Kylie, Income Equality Myths, Simpson’s Paradox, Thanksgiving
11/17/2019: Optimize Your Reading, Investing Books from the Pros, Reading Tools and Lists Galore
11/10/2019: The Antisocial Advantage, Disagreeable Investors, Be Wary of Good Ideas
11/03/2019: The Homeownership Fetish, 150 Years of Asset Returns, He Hates Coffee
10/27/2019: SF as a Failed State, Economic Novels, Meta About Friends, Fake Pacman
10/20/2019: Bribing Your Principles, Corporate Morality, Your ‘Fair Share’?
10/13/2019: The Volatility Drain, Percents Are Tricky, Interview Your Advisor
10/06/2019: Upside of Overvaluation, WeWork Was Inevitable, JetSuite Rocks
09/29/2019: Equality vs Meritocracy, The Zeroth Commandment, Kyoto Guide
09/22/2019: Encouraging Kids to Read, Artisanal Social Media, Japanese Sake
09/15/2019: Advice for Younger Friend, When Finance Feels Lame, Seeing Sumo Live
09/09/2019: ‘Just World’ Delusion, Power Not Contracts, Japan Itinerary
09/02/2019: Memories as a Unit of Time, A New X-Axis, Anonymous Giving
08/25/2019: Your Money Says Too Much About You, Ramit Sethi’s best insights
08/18/2019: Dazed & Confused vs Saved By The Bell, HS Advice, “It’s a dry heat”
08/11/2019: Deceiving our Kids, Homeschooling, My “Number Neighbor”
08/05/2019: Negative Energy in Astronomy and Daily Life, On Spain, Mendocino
07/28/2019: A Mindset for Quantum Leaps, David Epstein, The Sunset Strip
07/21/2019: A Surprising Google Search, Loneliness, Twitter Friends
07/14/2019: Talented Consumers, Steal Like an Artist, Summer Links
07/07/2019: Earthquakes, an Evolution Boardgame, Palm Springs Vacation
06/30/2019: Average Smarts, Power Law Vision, Confused Animal Diets
06/24/2019: Hormesis, “Fat” Thinking, Musing on Meat
06/16/2019: Every Band Needs a Tambourine, Newton’s 3rd Law For Relationships
06/09/2019: Defang Future Excuses, Unroll Tweetstorms
06/03/2019: Overfitting the Wrong Lessons, Car Lease Math
05/27/2019: Links to Podcasts with Peter Zeihan, Priya Parker, Sam Altman
05/19/2019: Poop, Waste, and Pistachios
05/12/2019: Attention Management, Twitter FTW
05/05/2019: Half Life of Facts, Break Up With The News
04/28/2019: Scooped Midrange, Potato Satiety, TGIF
04/22/2019: Planets of Knowledge, The Office Red Pill
04/14/2019: Sparking Shower Thoughts, Podcast Summary Sites
04/07/2019: Sleep, Healthspan, Supplements, Book Notes
03/31/2019: Money Insecurity, Getting Rich, Book Recs
03/24/2019: Bandwidth = Visual + Interactive Learning
03/17/2019: Fragmentation, College Scandal, Being Organized