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Max pain options: Does the price really pin at expiry? I tested it

By Markus · October 31, 2026 · 7 min

Max pain is the strike price where option holders would collect the least at expiry, and the theory says the stock gets pulled toward it before…

By Markus · October 28, 2026 · 7 min

Do stocks go up on Fed days? I took all 261 scheduled FOMC decisions from February 1994 to September 2026 and checked how the S&P 500 closed on each…

By Markus · October 29, 2025 · 3 min

Market participants mostly use the S&P 500 index as their benchmark to compare performance against the overall stock market. This often creates…

By Markus · August 12, 2025 · 3 min

Based on years of research, two of my main mantras in the market are: Hold the strongest stocks in an uptrend – mathematically the best way to…

By Markus · July 11, 2024 · 3 min

I went through a meditation course and took notes of my progress for several weeks in 2019, which taught me to look at myself, my actions and…

By Markus · April 12, 2024 · 6 min

The past is not a good guide to make predictions about the future because the future will be different. One should take as little as possible but as…