Every StaxInvesting article tagged automation settings · 5 posts.
5 articles
Ahead of an earnings print, implied volatility inflates the premium; after it, the volatility crushes, and a long-premium position can lose even when the underlying moves the right way. How entry timing, price filters, structure, and sizing bound that failure mode, and the honest limit of each.
A scheduled catalyst lands at a known time, which turns the decision to trade the window into a configuration choice rather than a reaction. What schedule control governs, what it misses, and why it has to be paired to be complete.
A dispersed tape can leave the index calm while individual names move sharply in both directions, and a flat index offers no protection against concentration you did not price. How symbol filters and concurrency caps bound single-name risk, and the honest limit of each.
A low VIX ahead of a binary event does not mean the event is low-risk: it means options are pricing a small move against a catalyst that can produce a large one. How sizing, defined-risk structures, and loss limits bound that gap, and the honest limit of each.
A scheduled macro print widens the distribution of intraday outcomes, and risk settings tuned for an average day behave differently inside it. A mechanism-by-mechanism look at bounding automated exposure on a high-variance session â and the honest limit of each control.
