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Path: How Compounding Alters Return Distributions
See how the path of returns can alter the distribution of p/l independently of expectancy.
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Lessons From The Layup – Corner 3 Spread
Practice relative value thinking
Options Theory
Mock Trading Options With Market Makers
How professional option traders trained
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Fun Analogy Between Combinations and a Correlation Matrix
Math fun relating ideas
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Where Does Convexity Come From?
Convexity is a fancy word for "my position size is not constant"
How Markets Work
Why You Don’t Get Paid For Diversifiable Risks
Examples of a counterintuitive aspect of portfolio theory
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How Tails Constrain Investment Allocations
How low probability-events restrict advisable position sizes
How Markets Work
Your Portfolio Intuition Is Poor
Our instincts about the role of correlation are not well-tuned
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Percents Are Tricky
Possible pitfalls of thinking in percents with ratios
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Levered ETF/ETN tool
Compute the amount of dollars required to rebalance a levered exposure
How Markets Work
The difficulty with shorting and inverse positions
The brutal arithmetic behind shorting