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I remember your website. I was at a hedge funds that used your service. I had a few conversations by email and by phone with your partner too (nice guy and went to a good MBA schoo…

Hey Michael, nice article. I saw in a comment you said students frequently ask you "how do I come up with a good startup idea?" and I know in the article you also included "This by…

Looks like it's just another data-mined modification of Relative Strength Index (RSI) applied to bitcoin. Here is the wikipedia on RSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_stren…

That link is not to the Price is Right TV show. The "Price is Right" brand has a traveling live theater production as well called Price is Right Live. Tickets to that cost money. T…

Our website promoting local short-term small businesses like popup shops and food trucks and "summer businesses" launches January 1. Our first feature story is an article and podca…

The contestant selection for the Price is Right television show isn't random. You're spot on, a producer selects the contestants based on a quick interview with each audience membe…

Very difficult to lose 75%. Takes skill. The psychology of traders in any market, especially amateur traders, is such that loss aversion kicks in much stronger and quicker than the…

Nice read, thanks.

No. The price never reached a 570% gain so your "most likely" is impossible. The error in the article confusing percentage and multiples is one of a common math errors and the most…

Hope. Hope is a two sided coin. Yes gamblers or speculators or whatever they may be called could go to casinos in person. Or gamble via online poker. Or go bet on a horse race. Or …

Nice comment, you seem like you know your stuff. My opinion is without fundamentals or historical or correlated assets here you can't price tail risk beyond throwing a dart. Look a…

Hedging is a valuable practice. But my point was the old option modeling, Black-Scholes for example, doesn't work in Bitcoin markets: firstly because Bitcoin markets don't have the…

You're right. And I agree, the missing info about the contracts and the overall derivatives market here plus the expiration and strike being so far away makes calculating IV or del…

You're the CEO of this company? Well congrats on the WSJ article. Can I ask who books writing a large trade like this? Basically are you making this market and $1 million dollar tr…

A call option also means someones else took the other side of this trade. Who sold $1 million dollars worth of December 2018 Bitcoin $50K call options? Also there's a back of the e…

Well when one has been doing Bad Hemingway for 60 years, it makes sense to get good at it.

This is spot on. My comment on this thread tried to give some background on how the cargo cult part. The experienced Excel users I know also keep the F1 key right on the keyboard a…

Whoa, I briefly worked on a project related to this, over in Redmond, like 20 years ago (ya I'm an oldie). So weird to see this being talked about in 2017, based on an article from…