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  1. Seriously all, if you have any convexity at all (and you do, even if you don't trade options), you should follow Carr closely. $$
  2. Thank goodness for Stocktwits: where else in 2009 am I going to get over-earnest machismo with just a touch of homophobia?
  3. If you trade options, save yourself ten thousand hours of looking at charts, and spend a hundred hours here: http://bit.ly/1IpEPX $$
  4. @NYCBIZ I'm mostly just interested in how efficient a sports option-y market of 'amateurs' would be compared to listed options.
  5. @NYCBIZ Well that's silly, that's like throwing away good information.
  6. I buy Eli Manning today and get whatever points he scores over the next n weeks. That'll give you some convexity, I think.
  7. .@stevenplace @zerobeta @NYCBIZ What I'm after with the fantasy sports idea is constantly tradable players.
  8. Mechanical strategies are flat for tomorrow, as are my deltas. Longer-dated vol looks more attractive than it did last week. $$
  9. Just heard Peter Carr (NYU,Bloomberg) update his variance risk premium paper. Might as well have been the music of angels. $$
  10. High-level discussions of volatility are good for reminding you that most trades (and traders) are just statistical noise. $$
  11. Are there any fantasy sports leagues in which you can buy/sell players? And if so, do the prices have optionality (gamma)? $$
  12. Maybe go figure out why so many people care that Claude Levi-Strauss died. There's so much more to life than charts and money. $$
  13. Still stalking gold implied vol, anticipate getting clients short vol via call ratios over the next few days. $GC_F $GLD
  14. .@futures1978 Rand and ethics go together like peanut butter and chocolate-flavored nuclear waste. Try Kant, Aristotle, or anyone literate.
  15. If you thought Ayn Rand was as wrong as it gets, wait until Mark Sanford adds his two blessed cents. http://bit.ly/ys2Yr via @smsearsBarrons
  16. Got clients delta-neutral into the close, and the strategies have a slightly negative bias for Tuesday. $ES_F $$
  17. Nice move in gold this morning, if implied vol keeps rising I may sell call spreads. $GC_F $GLD
  18. Volatility Tracker: Hiccup or Hangover? http://bit.ly/2LgM9y Maybe a regime change happening, but even so, sell $SPY put spreads. $VIX
  19. It's only appropriate that someone dress for Halloween in a @agwarner -style $VIX bikini.
  20. Also, my post this week re $VIX futures volume is looking unbelievably prescient, no? Total accident. http://bit.ly/3YtcSw