Ka: A lot of participants get overwhelmed by options marketsa. They think it's all about, you need to have the most cutting edged model. And actually, like practitioners, what they are trying to do is classical market making. But then outside of those players, there's a whole wide spectrum of discretionary players. Ka: It really does make it very important to have a view as well an how the markets will evolve.
Today, I’m sitting down with Su Zhu, my friend and co-host, and Josh, of Orthogonal Trading.
Josh is one of the biggest and most experienced options traders in crypto and joined us for a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation. Together, we touched on topics like
how options work
differences between options and futures
Different strategies for using them in crypto
as well as what Josh thinks about options trading platforms in Defi
Resources:
https://www.optiontradingtips.com/options101/payoff-diagrams.html
https://www.payoffcharts.com/
https://www.investopedia.com/trading/getting-to-know-the-greeks/
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Su Zhu https://twitter.com/zhusu
Hasu https://twitter.com/hasufl
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