Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Wait For It!
Implied volatility over the past few weeks has managed to blue-ball me worse than my first high school date. At least back then I finally got lucky on the third turn. But this attention whoring bitch tease of a market just keeps on making hot promises but then never puts out. That at least until yesterday afternoon when the FOMC – unexpectedly – put some fear of God into what has become a long term manic depressive but short term over complacent marketplace.
(more…)X-Ray Vision On The Markets
Every Monday we spend 5 minutes trading our crypto system. We add up the profits and do whatever trading needs doing.
This week we squeezed out .83%, adding to the 13.5% last week and 14% the week before that.
It’s pretty clear now that the crypto drop is over, and it’s the first real reset of this bull market.
Having the ability to data mine the blockchain is like having X ray vision on the market.
Without going into a bunch of technical stuff (most of you guys seem to be bored by anyway), you can see that it’s obvious that we are nowhere near the end of the bull market.
In fact, the party is just getting started.
(more…)We Are SKEWED
Here’s a little tidbit you won’t ever see mentioned on CNBC. The longer markets remain range bound the more gamma risk continues to build up. Which is something you ought to be very worried about, even if you are not an options trader per se.
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