I had a long chat with a user who’s been trading as a primary means of income for over a decade. I was deeply impressed to watch how this individual followed the recipe we lay out in The Moontower Mission Plan while incorporating their own spice.
How they combine “volatility lens” with “directional bias”
1. Uses the Dashboard to find a name and term where the volatility stands out as cheap or expensive
2. Then checks if the stock is near an extreme (using technical indicators they’ve tuned o
A little experiment — talking into a camera instead of writing.
The topic… “the most underappreciated aspect of trading”
A rough script
The Most Underappreciated Aspect of Trading
In the world of trading and investing, there’s a lot of talk about modeling and methods and all kinds of geekery. This is all well and good. If you read Moontower, you’ll see plenty of that stuff. But I want to talk about the most underappreciated aspect of trading today.
Before we get to that, think about wh
Lots of fun stuff to learn today about options. Jumping right in.
GLD and USO
On the weekend of August 18th I pointed out that GLD ATM vol looked expensive as of the close on August 16th. I wrote about the setup and the performance after a week in the following posts respectively:
Flash post on GLD vol (8/8/24)
how many coin flips until your goal? (8/25/24)
I did not put anything on myself as I prefer to stick to trades where my vol lens and directional bias overlap. I have no opinion on go
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