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Valuation Timing with Excel

Data analysis plays a central role in making sense of financial markets. But how can you verify the conclusions others
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Trading books: Let’s get real about what you actually need

People often ask me for book recommendations. But here’s a better question: What’s going to help you make money today?
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Market making for beginners

I’ve noticed that beginners are often attracted to market making. To the uninitiated, it sounds like easy money and constant
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How important is keeping up with macro news?

Someone recently asked me if obsessing over FOMC announcements, Non-Farm Payrolls reports, geopolitics and other macro news is important for
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What can you do with a small trading account?

A lot of my advice boils down to trading is hard, so go after the easiest stuff you can find
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Quant systematic trading vs discretionary

Someone recently asked me about the difference between our approach and discretionary order flow trading and technical analysis. Order flow
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The Generic, No-Voodoo Trading Process

I notice that in conversations with traders, they often think about entries, exits, and discrete trades with some sort of
Think like a traderTrading as a business

So You Want to Start a Trading Business

I work with many traders who aspire to turn their passion for the markets into a serious trading business. And
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Intuitive Options Pricing

In this article, we’ll use simulation and simple visualisations to build intuition around how different variables drive the price of
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Pricing a Sports Bet like an Option

This post assumes basic knowledge of Options and Mathematical Expectation. Most of the features that you observe about options are simply
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Portfolio Hedging with Put Options

Read the previous parts of this 101 series on options: There are 2 good reasons to buy put options: Because
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Long Options Payoff Profiles

In this article, we explore the payoff to holding long options positions. Read the previous parts of this 101 series

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