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Automate Your Trading: Lessons from Software Engineering

My inbox is FULL. Always.
GitHub PR approvals.
Google Cloud alerts screaming about latency.
And—wedged right in between—execution reports from a few brokers politely informing me I did something… emotional.

For years I treated these worlds as unrelated.
Coding was the rational, well-lit part of my brain.
Trading was the fun, dopamine-fueled corner where rules were optional.
That worked right up until a few “strong conviction” trades turned into a full-blown kernel panic in my P&L.

That’s when it clicked:

An options portfolio is just a distributed system with terrible documentation and hostile users.

If you wouldn’t run a production service on vibes, why are you running your money that way?

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Options Strategies

A few years ago, I had the honor of managing a hedge fund with my brother. We used to discuss what options and strategies we should leverage. It’s a known fact that if you buy and hold, you will improve your probability of being profitable.

However, if you are a hedge fund, you wish to use some options strategies to boost your profit when the market is going up, down, or sideways.

Options strategies can be an effective tool for investors looking to increase their return on investment. Many strategies have the potential for significant gains, but the plan with tremendous profit potential is often considered a long-call option. 

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