Selling Calls: It Might Be Passive, But It Ain’t Income
The premium you receive for writing calls is not passive income but compensation for risk
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Using Insurance For Tax-Free Investment Growth
Insurance is a surgical tool -- use it carefully
Dispersion Trading For The Uninitiated
A gentle introduction to trading implied index correlation
The Monty Hall Problem Is More Than A Game
Real-life application of the Monty Hall conditional probability problem
What The Widowmaker Can Teach Us About Trade Prospecting And Fool’s Gold
How an option market decomposes probability from expectancy
A Cleaner Dashboard: Z-Scores Instead Of Price Changes
Use volatility-aware price changes for more context in your dashboards
Portfolio Theory And The Invisible Option On Hobbies
Portfolio theory is a portable idea to other parts of life
Jensen’s Inequality As An Intuition Tool
Practice in distinguishing linear vs non-linear phenomena
Option Lenses
The importance of looking at options comparatively
Getting Less Screwed On Compensation
Trading risk reversals on your bonus
How I Misapplied My Trader Mindset To Investing
On overlearning lessons
Talking To The Diamond Hands
Understanding the psychology of concentrated risk-taking
Why Investing Feels Like Astrology
Textbooks are far behind the market meta-game
Bubbles: Knowing You’re In One Is Not Even Half The Battle
Knowing something is a bubble doesn't prescribe an easy action
Understanding Vega Risk
Learn how option prices depend on changes in implied volatility
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