There is no dearth of qualified American workers. H1-B workers undercut American workers by taking a lower pay, working longer hours. They are always given non-critical projects since they lack the mental faculties to undertake complex projects.
@saah1lk@EconomPic@sajidnizami So everything that is supplying the massive leveraged directional demand will yield positive (either through basis or borrowing yield in the case of stablecoins).
Other than this effect, it's all rather efficient...
1/ Taking a break from options to talk about a general trading concept.
Intended audience: people who are getting into trading, people have read a bunch of “experts” and came away even more confused, etc.
A thread…
I'm nearly always trying to predict continuous alphas.
The problem I'm generally trying to solve is:
"What maximizes risk-adjusted excess return after txn cost, given expected vols, co-movements of assets, and my estimate of transaction costs"
Allow me to ramble for a bit about how I think about edge in trading. 👇👇👇
First, what we're trying to do is trade deviations from fair value.
We want to repeatedly:
- buy what's cheap
- sell what's expensive
- offset risk as cheaply and efficiently as possible.
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