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Article Mar 12, 2021 2 min read

Closing SLV trade – 121% in ~10 months

Last year during Covid I decided to purchase some silver options. 4/20/202025925191587Bought SLV Jan 21 2022 15.0 Call @ 3.254/20/202025925192864Bought SLV Jan 21 2022 15.0 Call @ 3.254/21/202025951958123Bought…

Article Mar 10, 2021 1 min read

Closing ULTHF trade 17.8% – 13 days

You can read about my previous post on this short position here. This stock has returned to its normal volatility and I'm up 17.8% in about two weeks.…

Article Mar 10, 2021 1 min read

Statistical Arbitrage in Pairs Based Trading

I was discussing principal component analysis and eigenvalues with a friend today. If you're not familiar with stat arb in the pairs-based trading world this paper is a…

Article Feb 25, 2021 2 min read

Why I’m shorting ULTHF

I woke up to this text message yesterday. It was completely unsolicited and I have no idea what the source of it is. Could it be a potential…

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