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Shannon’s Demon, rebalancing and live trading shenanigans

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, cryptographer, engineer and computer scientist who lived in the 20th century and died in 2001 aged 84. Sometime in the 1960s at MIT he came to a theory of rebalancing that is now called Shannon’s Demon. I saw it randomly already a few years ago on the web and […]

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I’m back to the highs again

Happy New Year! I have 7 trading accounts in my portfolio. One of the accounts returned +52% in 2023. See you next year! Lol. That seems to be the industry’s standard to talk about annual performance, right. Let’s look further what all of my assets combined did in 2023. 90% of trading is about sitting […]

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Sheldon Natenberg – Option Volatility and Pricing – Review

I’ve been studying and trading options for the past several months. It’s not a style drift, but adding an uncorrelated income stream to the current systematic portfolio of stocks and futures. I have already read several blogs and papers about options, listened to over a hundred podcast episodes, backtested my own ideas and I’m currently […]

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Holly and Steve Burns – Options 101 – Review

I recently decided to study options to understand if a particular negative skew (many small wins, occasional larger losses) strategy fits to my portfolio, which at the moment leans more towards positive skew methods like trend-following that take many small losses compensated by large wins. So it’s not about style drift nor replacing anything in […]