Trading

Financial markets can easily feel abstract and overwhelming when explained through textbook formulas and Wall Street jargon. To make these mechanisms tangible, I gave a presentation at Iconic Club Afaceri.ro in Iași breaking down the foundational financial instruments using a single, intuitive commodity: one bushel of wheat.

A primer to Implied Volatility, Constant Maturity, Term Structure. Enjoy the presentation!

Warning: Prior options trading knowledge is needed! if you do not know how payoff diagram for a CALL option looks like then these slides are not for you.

The bond market uses several important rate/date/price concepts that investors need to understand. Here's an explanation of the most significant ones.

As a wise man once said:

1. beginners think in $ change,
2. intermediates think in % change,
3. pros think in Z change.

Introducing new Tradingview Outlier changes alert indicator that calculates click (price change), percentage change, and Z-score (standard deviation multiple) changes while displaying outliers based on defined ranges.

You can easily double the investment and also double your return right? Not really… read on to see a few metrics that I use.

Never ask a trader how much he makes but how much he lost… here is a story…

Maybe one of the most effective indicator that I use on daily basis, Price breaks.

Again and again you can see how previous day/week/month's high/low and especially close act as support/resistance and how price bounces off these levels.

The curse and the blessing of returns … additive vs. compounding land and what are the PROs/CONs between them.

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.

Historical volatility (also called realized volatility) measures how far the normal standard deviation is from expected mean, over a given period of time.