Dirty (sic) Dispersion!

Quote from sle:

based on your gut feel - how much of the strategy is true systematic alpha and how much is your own ability to time risk premium? Personally, I don't do "classical" dispersion unless the correlation levels are stupidly rich and I certainly would never do crap like var swap dispersion...

I agree. Selling correlation is a graveyard style trade. You spend have to short extra index vol to avoid bleeding and then spend all your time trying to justify your gap risk. And when sht hits the fan, your book explodes in size.
 
What is NP btw? NuclearPhynance ?

That Capital Structure Demolition company seems pretty rad... funny at the very least...

First thing you see when you visit their site is

"All Your Bond Are Belong To Us"
 
Quote from babutime:

What is NP btw? NuclearPhynance ?

That Capital Structure Demolition company seems pretty rad... funny at the very least...

First thing you see when you visit their site is

"All Your Bond Are Belong To Us"

Yeah, Nuclear Phynance forums. A great resource for more quant stuff.
 
Quote from atticus:

I am RAW neutral-delta (not beta-adj) in the following. Long QQQ, short street vol. Long about $1,200 thetas:

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Inside reports on AAPL and PCLN, outside on GOOG. I am up a few dollars as I have been building the position a little every day. For shits this screenshot is within a few bp of my avg fills.

Out of this yesterday, small change today (from avg out). Will go over fills and ratios later, but this won on primary and hedge.

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Quote from atticus:

Out of this yesterday, small change today (from avg out). Will go over fills and ratios later, but this won on primary and hedge.

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Looking forward to it, but got to ask whether you had expected both ends to work out?
 
Quote from Doobs789:

Babu,

Here is a quick (and dirty) paper from the NP forum

i love in that article.. you posted..

"Well, dispersion
sounds more cryptic, and hence it’s easier to impress
people with it. Period. And it’s Greek in origin, making
you sound sophisticated."

i like how frank this guy is in this paper.. talking of wet dreams and such ..
 
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