5min chapter

The Trade Busters cover image

35 - Determining Trade Size with the Risk Calculator

The Trade Busters

CHAPTER

The PCR Is a Very Important Driver of the Capital Efficiency and the PCR Strategy Is Very Sensitive to This.

The average book size and the average value at risk doesn't change it just changes the amount of entries that you have but since you have more credit per entry they all kind of balance out. If you purposely sell less per week less frequency you can sort of increase the target that you need per entry and still size the trade the same from a come overall risk level. The last point I want to make is about the PCR again this is sort of a backwards looking metric and we're using that to to ground and to size everything  but you want to be kind of conservative so on the risk calculator if you are assuming a very high premium capture rate that is good in sense that you're not

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode