Research archive

Ideas are documented before they become opinions.

Research on portfolio construction, volatility, options, and alternative strategies—published to clarify the process, not manufacture certainty.

Portfolio construction8 min

Building an Income Portfolio That Can Survive a Bear Market

Balancing cash yield, option premium, liquidity, and genuine crisis diversification.

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Options and volatility6 min

When a High-Premium Trade Is Actually a Low-Quality Trade

Why implied volatility is only one input—and often the easiest one to misuse.

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Alternative strategies7 min

What Managed Futures Are Supposed to Do

A practical examination of trend, crisis behavior, and the uncomfortable periods between them.

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Risk management5 min

The Difference Between Available Cash and Risk Capacity

Collateral may be available long after the portfolio’s true risk budget is exhausted.

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Market regimes9 min

Building Rules for Markets That Refuse to Cooperate

How a regime framework can improve decisions without pretending to forecast the future.

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Trade process6 min

The Postmortem: Where a Trading Process Becomes Institutional

A repeatable review structure for wins, losses, and decisions that never became trades.

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