Guest Post: Dynamic Hedge on How the Sausage is Made

This is so great and if you put it in front of any Street pro, they’ll simply nod and chuckle to themselves no matter how much they manage or how long they’ve been trading.

My friend Dynamic Hedge put this up on his site, reprinted here in full, enjoy! – JB

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Strategies are dressed up for strangers — paraded around wearing top hats and hand crafted wingtips.  So refined and erudite in their manner, they effortlessly negotiate treaties with far away dictators over tea and fine whiskey.  They banter about natural adverse selection, portable alpha, and venue toxicity like perfect gentleman.  When they leave the ball and head back to the trading floor, they lace up the boots, the bell rings and the toothless punch-drunk brawler emerges, pounding out alpha and stabbing opponents for government cheese.

Walking strangers through your trades is a little bit like the food network broadcasting live from the meat packer (mechanical separators included).  No matter how refined the individual, the process is messy.  If you could eavesdrop on the inner monologue of your favorite trader it would profoundly disturb you.

Now, back to our regular scheduled program.

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Thanks DH!

Source:

Making of the Sausage (Dynamic Hedge)