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Jan 12, 2023·2 min read·Options and Volatility·Risk and Edge

Examples Of Comparing Interest Rates With Different Compounding Intervals

Translating rates of return over different time periods

Jan 8, 2023·6 min read·Risk and Edge

Liquidity Ostrich

Thoughts on how we perceive risk and liquidity

Dec 27, 2022·1 min read·How Markets Work

The Paradox Of Provable Alpha

What's more likely to have alpha: systematic or discretionary conditional on you being allowed to invest?

Dec 4, 2022·3 min read·Risk and Edge

Calibrated Confidence

Being a strong bettor requires well-tuned meta-knowledge

Nov 13, 2022·6 min read·How Markets Work

The Investing Version Of “Nothing Good Happens After Midnight”

Don’t obsess about investing beyond the point of diminishing returns.

Nov 2, 2022·10 min read·How Markets Work·Options Theory

Portfolio Theory In The Wild: Funding YouTube Creators

More life-applied portfolio theory

Oct 22, 2022·7 min read·Risk and Edge

An Example Of Using Probability To Build An Intuition For Correlation

How probability relates to correlation

Oct 15, 2022·12 min read·How Markets Work·Risk and Edge

Trading Is A Team Sport

The lone genius trader is a myth

Sep 30, 2022·16 min read·Options Theory·Options and Volatility

Celibacy Vs Condoms: The Answer To Whether You Should Trade Options

Options are surgical tools. They are priced for specificity. What to consider before bothering with them.

Sep 29, 2022·2 min read·Options and Volatility

An Example “Options Relative Value Trading Framework”

The professional inspiration for moontower.ai

Sep 26, 2022·8 min read·Risk and Edge

Bet Sizing Is Not Intuitive

Even people that should no better bet sums that are wildly suboptimal

Sep 24, 2022·6 min read·How Markets Work

Trading Vs Investing

Understand what you are actually doing

Aug 28, 2022·5 min read·Risk and Edge

Another Kind Of Mean

Harmonic means for ratios

Aug 22, 2022·13 min read·How Markets Work·Options and Volatility

Excerpts From Benn Eifert on the Odd Lots Podcast

An insightful interview with the QVR option fund's founder

Aug 14, 2022·3 min read·How Markets Work

The Juicy Stuff Doesn’t Hit The Pit

On adverse selection

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