They stopped reporting on their own website but you can still find the performance in some hedge fund database. To my surprise they did not do...
One way is to use both EOD and the Open of next day to run the backtest. If the results are similar then you can either place your order around...
seems weird they have not posted their Oct and Nov performance yet. They were usually posting their performances within the first week. Any idea...
It is very easy for you to backtest this ATM idea if you have the option data. In my experiment with index options I do not see a big advantage of...
Got the registration and thanks.
Signed up for the beta and waiting for access. Looks cool and thank you for developing such tools. Would you mind tell us some more details about...
Thanks for the sharing. Are you trading vol mainly based on long-medium term trend following or short-term mean reverting? I guess this trade is...
I am using optionshouse and they have some free rudimentary unusual options activity scanner. Maybe you can start from there?
In R and Python you can use SQL database. A R package called "data.table" is very fast in dealing with big tables which could fit into your RAM....
I am not sure about how the skew has damaged the call but in my backtested curve the call positions were blown by several market rebound....
If you simply short naked S&P 500 index put options with a delta of 5-10 for the same time period using a great amount of margin you can get the...
I used Barclayhedge free database to get some info. LJM and ITB were learnt from my friends. Not too many funds rough:-)
The 90-95% probability definitely helped. And there should be something else about how to close the position or hedge it. I do not believe they...
I think the worry of event risk is why they are exploring bond option strategies which will not suffer from equity market black-swans. Despite the...
I think they are mainly selling OTM S&P index put with 90-95% chance of expiring OTM. I have seen one of their interviews and I briefly talked to...
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