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Aug 20, 2023·How Markets Work

Reflections On Getting Filled

What's the value of something you win at auction conditional on getting filled

Apr 30, 2023·How Markets Work·Options and Volatility·Options Theory

Battle Scars As A Call Option — The UNG Experience

A case study in oblique risk

Apr 16, 2023·How Markets Work·Options Theory·Risk and Edge

Insights From The Warrant Puzzle via Financial Hacking

Financial Hacking is one of the best books applying intuition to common problems in trading and investing

Mar 19, 2023·How Markets Work

Beating The SP500 > Winning The NBA Title

Consistent alpha or championships?

Mar 9, 2023·How Markets Work

If You Wait For All The Info You’ll Be Too Late

The necessity of acting with incomplete info

Mar 5, 2023·How Markets Work

Reasoning Through A Housing Trade Out Loud

Qualitative discretion

Feb 26, 2023·How Markets Work

It’s Not The Merit It’s The Price

The wrong price can ruin a great idea

Feb 7, 2023·How Markets Work

Trading Is Like Any Other Business

Trading is applying a process to a need or service the market demands

Jan 29, 2023·How Markets Work

Practice Second Gear Thinking

Developing a habit of looking past first-order consequences

Dec 27, 2022·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?

Nov 13, 2022·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·How Markets Work·Options Theory

Portfolio Theory In The Wild: Funding YouTube Creators

More life-applied portfolio theory

Oct 15, 2022·How Markets Work·Risk and Edge

Trading Is A Team Sport

The lone genius trader is a myth

Sep 24, 2022·How Markets Work

Trading Vs Investing

Understand what you are actually doing

Aug 22, 2022·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

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