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Feb 21, 2024·How Markets Work·Risk and Edge

Getting Comfortable With Log Charts

Visualizing compounding for various rates of return

Feb 18, 2024·Risk and Edge

Getting Paid To Flip Million Dollar Coins

How much would you bet on a favorable coin?

Jan 24, 2024·Risk and Edge

Thinking In N not T

Sample sizes are not the same over equal time intervals

Jan 18, 2024·How Markets Work·Risk and Edge

Lessons From Ed Thorp’s Interview With Tim Ferriss

What we can learn from Ed Thorp

Jan 10, 2024·Options Theory

A Visual Appreciation For Black-Scholes Delta

Seeing delta from a new angle

Jan 7, 2024·Risk and Edge

Risk Depends On The Resolution

Volatility depends on sampling period

Dec 20, 2023·How Markets Work

The GOAT’s Parting Wisdom

Lessons from Munger

Dec 13, 2023·Risk and Edge

Using The Right Rulers

My notes on 2 books about measurement

Dec 10, 2023·How Markets Work·Options Theory

Bridge of Asses

The replication mindset is the key to upgrading your financial thinking

Nov 27, 2023·How Markets Work·Risk and Edge

5 Takeaways From Todd Simkin on The AlphaMind Podcast

More lessons from SIG

Oct 29, 2023·Risk and Edge

The Midpoint From 1 to 9 is…3?

numeracy practice

Oct 23, 2023·Options and Volatility·Risk and Edge

A Simple Demonstration of Return Vs Volatility

Volatility is a quadratic drag on returns

Oct 22, 2023·How Markets Work

The Creep of Arbitrage Means Investing Is Mostly A Faith Exercise

The challenge of "long term" investing

Oct 11, 2023·How Markets Work

What I Learned About TIPs

The mechanics of TIPs

Sep 29, 2023·How Markets Work

BOXX: Access Options Funding Rates in an ETF

How the t-bill alternative BOXX works

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