How Markets Work
"turds floating to the surface before the flush"
liquid and levered lead while illiquid and indirect lag
Kris Abdelmessih
Risk and Edge
Why meme stock put spreads look expensive
How vol drag influences vertical spreads
Risk and Edge
the 80/20 hack for "risk-adjusting" returns
Forecasting your actual compounded return
Options Theory
using elementary school geometry to explain gamma
gamma p/l is the same as distance covered via acceleration
the dirties are down the cleans are up
On June 2nd I tweeted: June expiry in USO vol change on the 3% rally... OPEC agreed over the weekend to hike production...but you saw the Ukraine-Russia developments. Competing bullish/bearish effects Vol is lower today if you look at the June surface. But it's probably up
Risk and Edge
The "most important" gambling topic and a riddle
Non-self-weighting strategy
Risk and Edge
the investment industry is a placebo
Uselessly long feedback loops mean investing is an act of faith
Netting risk, “The Hopeless”, John Arnold and more
a wide smattering of finance nerdom
The variable that balances the buy/rent equation
You’ve solved one equation with one unknown a million times. For example: $20 - 2 * $8.99 = X where: X = how much change you are owed after handing over an Andrew Jackson for 2 hot dogs at Wrigley Field. In finance, this uneventful operation is dressed up with the
two vol trader interview questions
practice with volatility time
How Markets Work
how I sold cotton at an all-time high
The cotton market as a unique example of when derivatives become the underlying
Options and Volatility
Our big TSLA covered call study
Selling covered calls in TSLA for the past 6 years
Options Theory
Options as LEGOs
How to explain options and put-call parity to absolute beginners
Options and Volatility
shortcuts to get implied vol from a straddle
more option math tricks
Options and Volatility
what the vol spread hides
how charts oversimplify
Risk and Edge
the 2 vectors of volatility scaling
the foundation of portfolio construction