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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Moontower Sunday 🌙smart vs wise 🌙adverse selection when landing a senior role 🌙cost of carry as a conviction hurdle 🌙KenKen moontower.substack.com/p/avoiding-a...

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avoiding a lemon job

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Moontower Thursday The meat is about option margin but a few rapid fire topics: 🌙Welcome to Scamerica 🌙LLMs for faster applied learning 🌙Slopstacks moontower.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

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a guide to option margin

plus other scattered thoughts

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Moontower Sunday 🌙AI leaves the hardest problems to humans 🌙The triggering implication of arbitrage theory 🌙options rapid fire 🌙Nine Inch Noize moontower.substack.com/p/like-neo-d...

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like Neo downloading kung fu

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Moontower returns 🌙Jane Street Cope 🌙"Look Ahead" Bias 🌙Vegas Spring Break with kids moontower.substack.com/p/the-guy-wh...

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"the guy who invented the chip was a genius"

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Moontower today 🌙cross the “bridge of asses” 🌙how to get arbed with perfect information 🌙scaling laws of risk reduction 🌙“research collector” skill moontower.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

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how to get arbed with perfect information

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Moontower Munchies #148 🌙a market-making project you can do today 🌙market design choices influence who shows up, who gets picked off moontower.substack.com/p/a-market-m...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Moontower #307 🌙math in the car with kids 🌙subway platform riddle for demographics 🌙trader quick math 🌙from straddle to gamma moontower.substack.com/p/subway-pla...

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subway platform riddle for demographics

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Moontower thursday I hope you find this part educational and many parts useful. godspeed moontower.substack.com/p/oil-option...

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oil options and the raw gamma paradox

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Moontower Munchies 🌙the new 70s "slideshow" 🌙"archival selves" refs: @vgr.bsky.social moontower.substack.com/p/the-new-70...

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the new 70's slideshow

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Moontower Sunday pitchfork CLAWback In this issue: 🌙half-baked AI thoughts 🌙making your own teacher 🌙a satisfying derivation of the 80% straddle rule moontower.substack.com/p/pitchfork-...

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pitchfork CLAW-back

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The recent action in EWY fits a pattern that happens frequently enough to be worth understanding the SHAPE of its vol. You will find: 🌙handy measures 🌙inspiration for your own exploration 🌙GIT notebook to get you started with yfinance data moontower.substack.com/p/how-a-high...

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how a high implied vol can be cheap

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Moontower 🌙Launching podcast/YT series: The Options Trench 🌙Make it make sense 🌙"measurement not prediction" in the wild moontower.substack.com/p/at-least-m...

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at least make the conspiracy make sense

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Moontower #305 🌙Investment Beginning Class #2: The math of investing 🌙moontower as a bridge moontower.substack.com/p/paying-too...

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paying too much and selling too cheap

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Moontower for today... 🌙options policework A highly useful and approachable post (well that claim is for you to decide) for deconstructing a bad beat, how to manage the position, and basic sizing framework moontower.substack.com/p/options-po...

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options policework

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Moontower #303 🌙more AI use examples 🌙how taxes can influence option trades Below is a vid from the post of IB recognizing a synthetic call. (I explain why I built that structure, because I wanted to close for taxes) moontower.substack.com/p/tip-your-l...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New Moontower post From Text ➡️ Dashboards The gist of this is that good content is becoming more "usable". We're realizing this at different paces but it'll be obvious to most eventually moontower.substack.com/p/from-text-...

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From Text ➡️ Dashboards

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Moontower #302 🌙i finally got around to some reading 🌙asian options moontower.substack.com/p/asian-opti...

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asian options

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Moontower 🌙on free markets 🌙Bet The Process interview 🌙Investments Beginnings Class 🌙Silver levered ETF rebalances moontower.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Moontower Munchies 🌙Why optimism is hard 🌙Dunning-Kruger detector refs: @strangeloopcanon.com moontower.substack.com/p/dunning-kr...

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Dunning-Kruger detector

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Moontower #300 🌙AI projects I'm working on 🌙Investment Beginnings Class moontower.substack.com/p/innovators...

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innovator’s dilemma in homine

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Moontower #299 🌙haters 🌙earnings vol 🌙better deltas moontower.substack.com/p/haters

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haters

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Today's moontower: embedding spot-vol correlation in option deltas moontower.substack.com/p/embedding-...

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embedding spot-vol correlation in option deltas

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Got distracted and published an option post on a Wednesday instead of a Thursday. Used $HOOD to talk about earnings volatility moontower.substack.com/p/hood-a-cas...

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HOOD: A Case Study in “Renting the Straddle”

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Off-cycle post moontower.substack.com/p/illusions-...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Moontower 🌙work is going to feel very different by next Christmas 🌙 on trading games and family games refs: moontower.substack.com/p/work-is-go...

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work is going to feel very different by next Christmas

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

For the fun of it...deployed a version of @investingidiocy.bsky.social simulator with the ability to change design themes trading-sim2.moontowermeta.com

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Today's Moontower 🌙Vol orders and option execution 🌙Highlighting @investingidiocy.bsky.social awesome post about Raen and funded trader challenges. He posted his code so I took the liberty: trading-sim.moontowermeta.com Full letter: moontower.substack.com/p/vol-orders...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

First Moontower of 2026! 🌙dealer gamma 🌙"slop" refs: @kyla.bsky.social moontower.substack.com/p/slop

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slop

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Picking up like 500 bot followers a day here wtf

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Moontower Wrapped 2025 A smattering of recs & personal thoughts. May your holidays be cozy, hilarious, and filled with peace & love. moontower.substack.com/p/moontower-...

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Moontower Wrapped 2025

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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

WHY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BETTING ON EVERYTHING In today’s Wall Street Journal, I wrote about how an economy with fewer stable paths is pushing young people toward low probability, high payoff bets in search of upside - even though this is not what people actually want.

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Moontower Survey Results w/ some commentary... Been a few years since I did a reader survey to learn about YOU Thanks to all those who responded! One question that is always fun because it highlights framing is "how does reading MT make you feel?" moontower.substack.com/p/moontower-...

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Moontower Survey Results

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Moontower today (sigh) I've managed to go a long time without writing about 0DTEs directly. But I got lured in by a trade a mutual shared last month. If you insist on trading 0DTE hopefully this helps moontower.substack.com/p/pricing-0d...

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Pricing 0DTEs

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Moontower today... 1. The short answer is – revolutions don’t work the way you think. Revolutions aren’t initiated by the poor against the rich. They are crusades launched by the top 2% against the top 1%. -- Manu Joseph 2. MGTN implied correlation? moontower.substack.com/p/the-poor-a...

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the poor and the magnificent

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Moontower #296 🌙the middle class is no place to stay...personal take in the wake of "$140k poverty line" virality 🌙option exercise & pair trade weight calculators moontower.substack.com/p/the-middle...

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It's all very relevant for both option traders and anyone who uses volatility in their risk or sizing measures. Covers some extra curiosities as well that I hope you find delightful or at least satisfying. ☮️

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today's Moontower was a post I really enjoyed writing. It started with surprise in the way my "napkin" estimate was wrong and forced me to learn some math that i never stared at directly at before despite noticing its consequences. moontower.substack.com/p/the-coastl...

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The Coastline Paradox in Financial Markets

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Moontower #295 🌙holiday coziness --> backgammon 🌙useful reflexes in a world turning into a casino moontower.substack.com/p/from-every...

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From “everything computer?” to “everything casino?”

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Zoom meetup today...details inside ✌🏽 moontower.substack.com/p/day-in-the...

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"day in the life" zoom meetup today

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today's moontower is about 🌙skills, abilities, and self-knowledge It's got some useful reminders if you're trying to get better at anything moontower.substack.com/p/myelination

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myelination

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

As always, we’ll leave time for Q&A. Feel free to bring your happy hour beer or Diet Coke (in my case). The chat will be recorded and available to paid subs. I’ll send the zoom link out Thursday morning. ☮️

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So we can get grimy about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of what the trading job was like. I’ll cover a day at the office, what kinds of tools would be used for various job functions, and even some recent thoughts about discretionary trading in particular.

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If you’re not technical by the standards of 2025, then github, VSCode, the install/import of packages or frameworks, and the friggin’ command line might as well be a lady’s hoo-ha to an incel. No instruction is too obvious.

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

“Ahh, I see why you don’t spend more than 45 seconds addressing 10 4th-grade boys in a gym. They are physically incapable of stillness.”

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Neither of these topics can be made too boring for me since I’m a noob. Things that a teacher took for granted show up quickly when you try for the first time.

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Recent personal examples where I appreciate explicit exposition because I’m not an expert: 🏀coaching youth basketball 💻setting up coding environments

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Kris Abdelmessih @moontower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I tend to like “boring” details about how people do things because when you actually try to do things you are taught, it’s never as easy as the mentor made it look.

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