Maveri: il link al post di Chan era per le idee operative proposte alla fine del post piu' che per la discussione sull'antifragile. Probabilmente roba nota per i maghi dell'opzionario, ma magari interessante per altri (fra cui me

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"But recently a reader recommended a little book to me: Jeff Augen's "Day Trading Options" where the Black-Scholes equation (and indeed any equation) is mercifully absent from the entire treatise. At the same time, it is suffused with qualitative ideas. Among the juicy bits:
1) We can find distortions in the 2D implied volatility surface (implied volatility as z-axis, expiration months as x, and strike prices as y) which may mean revert to "smoothness", hence presenting arbitrage opportunities. These distortions are present for both stock and stock index options.
2) Options are underpriced intraday and overpriced overnight: hence it is often a good idea to buy them at the market open and sell them at market close (except on some special days! See 4 below.). In fact, there are certain days of the week where this distortion is the most drastic and thus favorable to this strategy.
3) Certain cash instruments have unusually high kurtosis, but their corresponding option prices consistently underprice such tail risks. Thus structures such as strangles or backspreads can often be profitable without incurring any left tail risks.
4) If there is a long weekend before expiration day (e.g. Easter weekend), the time decay of the options value over 3 days is compressed into an intraday decline on the last trading day before the weekend.
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