@Ksidiii@EQDerivatives Is it just the market maker that wins a Buffered ETFs WEX auction that is monetizing their growth through spread? Or are you referring to monetization of cheap calls that are influenced by the call selling of those funds?
Leopold lost his aura
That’s my honest opinion
Got Iran-pilled and loaded up on semi puts before one of the biggest rallies in history
Exited his huge $INTC call position at $44 before the $100+ rally
- > Sold $HUT before it went up 105%
- > Sold $COHR before it went up 52%
- > Sold $CIFR before it went up 49%
- > Sold $TSEM before it went up 41%
- > Sold $LITE before it went up 35%
- > Trimmed 40% of $BE before it went up 90%
- > Trimmed $CORZ before it went up 59%
- > Trimmed $SEI before it went up 40%
Exited calls and missed a ton of upside
Portfolio getting lower quality, in my opinion, and messier
As a former PM who ran a long/short vol strategy, I’ll say the quiet part out loud so that aspiring PMs out there know:
Long Vol / hedging funds are doomed to fail because you are asking allocators to pay a visible, recurring insurance premium for an invisible benefit.
Long-vol funds sell convexity, but allocators judge linearly
The experience is down month,
down month,
down month,
down quarter,
down year,
hey we're up some,
down month,
down month,
down month,
wait why are you pulling money there is a vol spike coming.
The better structure is a balanced portfolio with a clearly defined vol / convexity sleeve.
Let the core portfolio compound.
Let the convexity sleeve protect the left tail, create liquidity in stress, and fund rebalancing when assets get cheap.
Standalone hedging is psychologically hard to own.
Embedded convexity is much easier to underwrite.
@choffstein@bennpeifert Benn believed in nonsense fairytales and couldn’t handle any criticism. He blocked me for pointing out that taking an experimental vaccine was an unknown tail risk and worse than the known tail risk of Covid for healthy young people. Complete buffoon
Dear $AAOI “investors,” it’s me JaneStreet. Please continue to buy the 140% implied vol calls. We took on 5% ownership and promise not to harvest vol premium and delta hedge to pin the price to no higher than $125. We swear we won’t hurt you this time