Ryan Hendricks

Rules and Risks

How the Pattern Day Trader rule is harmful rather than helpful. Butterfly spreads. Early assignment risk from short call options on ex-dividend dates.

Life

Qi Tea

Given that there is currently no cure for CoVid-19 the main course of action should one become infected is to alleviate the symptoms and help the body fight back. I

Markets

Up on escalators, down in elevators.

I've had a lot on my mind the past few days as I'm sure many others have had as well. As I am checking in with the markets this Sunday

Cycling

Kosciuszko Bike Path

Anyone who has driven on the Brooklyn Queens Express between Brooklyn and Queens has experienced the Kosciuszko bridge. The original bridge was demolished but will forever be associated with bumper

Markets

The Federal Funds Rate and Market Tops

Do rate cuts occur following a market crash? Seemingly the opposite is true.

Building Stuff

Nature

Photos from a multi-year transformation of an outdoor space.

Markets

Yield Curve Inversions

Nothing to see here. Everything is fine.

Building Stuff

Welcome to the Solid State

Instructions This is a step-by-step guide to upgrading a computer to a solid state drive (SSD). For computers with a standard mechanical hard drive (HDD; spinning platters) this is by

Trading

Making Sense of Market Madness

Pension fund driven EOY/EOQ rebalancing? makes sense. Plunge protection team operations? Let's hope not. Algorithmically-driven predatory price discovery targeting protections put on by the retiree turned gambler? You betcha!

Crypto

ICO Aftermath

Discussion of the WSJ article that uncovers a silver lining to the current "crypto winter" which is the decimation of scam and fraud within the industry.

Blockchain

Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return for Staking Tokens

The Risk-Adjusted rate of return for staking a token is a far more important metric than simply using reward percentage when it comes to analyzing staking tokens. There are countless profit calculators that will gladly tell you how much you will earn based on how much you stake.

Blockchain

Fix Pending Ethereum Transactions

An Ethereum transaction stuck in the pending state is fixable. By stuck I mean the transaction has been pending for more than an hour. The Fix The remedy is to

Cycling

Respect is a Two-Way Street

Lessons Learned from 3 Years of Cycling in NYC and some suggestions to increase the mutual respect between drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

Crypto

Bitron Company Develops Blockchain Cryptotronics

The way assets are exchanged has evolved and developed over time. Human nature on the other hand hasn't changed at all. This is the reason that no matter how complex our markets become they will always behave the same.

Blockchain

Healthcare Blockchain Conquered

Where are they? Implementing a 'medical' blockchain solution in the Healthcare industry is currently the holy grail of the decentralized technology and distributed ledger camp. Yet, a viable solution that

Blockchain

Bitcoin Futures. The Beginning of the End.

A digital currency created in order to eliminate greedy middlemen ultimately comes to be controlled by those very same middlemen because of the same greed.

Loki

Pets

What your pet needs from you: My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely going to be painful. Give me time to understand what you want of me. YOU are the one I want to please. Place your

Crypto

Recommendations for ICOs

Pretty much all of the technology that makes your ICO possible is open source. So why deviate from that social value unless of course you are trying to hide something?

Markets

The Psychology of Market Madness

In seven short hours, they'd been conditioned to think of the chips as ATMs that spat out twenties, and even though their rational minds knew better, their hearts were all telling them to corner the chip

Hurricanes

Hurricane IRMA DataBeam

Serving up raw data from NOAA buoys and tide sensors in simple HTML from a load-balanced cloud server cluster to assist friends and family back home in Naples, FL.

Markets

Stocks on Blocks

Securities trading based on blockchain technology is coming sooner than many realize. Projects are already launching across the globe. Since there appears to be no similar endeavors in the US,

Blockchain

Bitcoin Forks

The Pull Request from your worst nightmare. Bitcoin Cash: Why It's Forking the Blockchain And What That Means Here is the time line: via CoinDesk Some (potentially biased) information on

Markets

Quotes

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Crypto

Ethereum Flash Crash aka Trade of the Year

Flash crash or trade of the year? Tip of the hat to this mystery player.

Markets

The Exploitation of Retail Investors

Looking at the issues resulting from payment for order flow, maker-taker rebate models, regulation nms, and the lack of hesitation from Wall St. in screwing over as many people as possible.