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Feb 28, 2025·13 min read·Options and Volatility

a sense of proportion around skew

how much does skew affect prices?

Feb 20, 2025·13 min read·How Markets Work

Seasonal volatility

Generalizing lessons from natural gas options

Feb 17, 2025·3 min read

the right bogey: trades that seem compelling but aren’t and vice versa

another reason why the right benchmark is so important

Feb 13, 2025·5 min read·Options and Volatility

Moontower "Blaster" Tool

"buried treasure" trading

Feb 12, 2025·2 min read·How Markets Work

Eagle-eyed chart reader

why you must use log charts for looking at compounded returns

Feb 9, 2025·2 min read·Options and Volatility

years worth of option education in under 90 minutes

Loads of option concepts in a screencast

Feb 6, 2025·14 min read·Options and Volatility

how an option trader extracts earnings from a vol term structure

a subject that encompasses many vol topics

Feb 2, 2025·1 min read·Risk and Edge

risk rules that ignore p/l memory

constrain risk before the loss not after

Jan 30, 2025·9 min read·Options and Volatility·Options Theory

how to become the main character on voltwit

when measuring changes in vol as a percent makes sense

Jan 29, 2025·10 min read·Options Theory

arbitrage is a hall of mirrors

arbitrage-free requirements leads to unintuitive pricing

Jan 19, 2025·2 min read·Options Theory

"over-the-shoulder" substance

another learning mode

Jan 12, 2025·3 min read·Options and Volatility

The Moontower Subscriber Hoot

Discord Voice Channel

Jan 9, 2025·14 min read·Options and Volatility

another XIV brewing in crypto?

long shot bets against MSTR

Jan 8, 2025·10 min read·Risk and Edge

you can ONLY eat risk-adjusted returns

the "hardest, nastiest problem in finance"

Jan 2, 2025·8 min read·How Markets Work

seat arbitrage

seat arbitrage and stories

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