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Iron condor: What 38 years of S&P 500 data say about it
An iron condor is four options with the same expiry: you sell an out-of-the-money put and an out-of-the-money call, and buy a put and a call further…
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Poor man’s covered call: Testing the rules on real SPY quotes
A poor man’s covered call is a covered call where a long-dated, deep in-the-money call option stands in for the 100 shares. You buy that call, sell a…
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Cash secured put: What 19 years of S&P 500 data say about it
A cash-secured put means you sell a put option and keep enough cash in the account to buy the 100 shares if the stock falls below the strike. You get…
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Covered call: What 24 years of S&P 500 data say about it
A covered call means you own 100 shares and sell someone the right to buy them from you at a fixed price, for a fee you keep. It turns some of a…
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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…
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I’m back to the highs again
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…