Gasherbrum2 - how to compare gear
Mountaineering
I need to choose between a 229 EUR down hoody that weights 319g and one that is 269 EUR and 420g… which one will you go for?
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" - Leonardo Da Vinci
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein
Gasherbrum2 - gear list
Mountaineering
Always changing gear list, updated for high altitude mountaineering Gasherbrum2 expedition.
Naming conventions:
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Gasherbrum2 - training plan
Mountaineering
With only two months remaining until the Gasherbrum2 expedition I put together a training plan, kind of writting in stone, let's see how it goes.
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New Market Wizards
Review
The second market wizards book, named simply New Market Wizards was actually published before the Hedge Fund Market Wizards book, a bit older but as the saying goes… oldies but goldies.
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Bias vs. Variance
Statistics
I don't know about others but when I started digging into machine-learning I had some problems understanding bias-variance until I found a nice target shooting analogy.
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Historical volatility
Trading
Historical volatility (also called realized volatility) measures how far the normal standard deviation is from expected mean, over a given period of time.
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Whale alert
Trading
Very simple pivot-point indicator that tries to detect whales' presence by checking the spikes in volume at the same UTC hour for the last 3 days.
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Incomplete guide to Options Greeks
Finance
Greeks or Options Greeks are tools/statistics which measure sensitivity (responsiveness, calculus anyone?) of option price to changes in various parameters: underlying price, volatility, time, etc…
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Black-Scholes formula
Finance
Black-Scholes formula… maybe not as important and well-known as compounding interest-rate but still the most famous formula among options traders.
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Year 2020
Review
Pam, pam, pam !!!
Bloody fucking year, 2020, one of a kind, already in history books.
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