Fifth Grade Finance

10/06/2022 — Not So Fast

September of 2022 was the worst month the financial markets have had since March of 2020. For those who’ve been living under several piles of rocks, with their headphones on, in a cave in East Jerkmenistan, that was when the pandemic finally made serious inroads on this side of the…

06/10/2022 — Rangebound…and Down

Like Kenny Powers stumbling his way through an increasingly quixotic attempt at reliving the baseball…

04/12/2022 — Frontrunning (A Crash Course)

Frontrunning.

02/27/2022 — Knee Jerk, Russian Style

It appears that the last round of financial sanctions heaped upon Russia may have spurred…

02/17/2022 — Vol Shy

As a trader, extended periods of volatility above historical volatility tend to…

01/06/2022 — Happy New Fear!

Nothing says “Happy New Year” like a new fear! Last year we fretted about the potential economic disaster…

06/05/2021 — Reverse Decay

Anyone with even the slightest understanding of basic options theory will tell you that the value of an option…

05/28/2021 — The FOMO Market

I learned about FOMO four years ago as friends laughed at my continued ignorance of modern terms, or as I like to call them, lazy abbreviations. I can appreciate this particular shorthand a bit more for its muppet-like goofy sound and its lexical proximity to FOMC (Federal Open…

05/17/2021 — Volatility (Slight Return)

After a month of very little (good) trade, last week gave a glimmer of hope that near-term…