In line with the 'Our strategy for a bear market' article, we have entered some new strategies, and have also utilised Arbitrum and Solana.
TL;DR - added more stablecoins and some delta-neutral positions.
full positions in thread below...
1. Sold 20E worth of covered calls on $AVAX using an automated options strategy using ribbon.finance. Yielding 42.51% APY
2. Added 15 ETH to the MIM/UST/USDC 3poolv2 on liquiddriver.finance yielding 22% APR and harvesting $LQDR
3. Bridged $25k to Solana and running an automated call option selling strategy on $FTT using friktion.fi (fully covered calls). Algorithmic strike and expiry selection. Autocompounds. 84.4% APY
4. Bridged a further $25k to Solana and entered delta-neutral leveraged farming on ATLAS/USDC with offsetting borrow on ATLAS against borrowed USDC. Should net at least 198% APY with little/no market exposure.
5. Bridged 5E to Arbitrum and bought $DPX. Staked on dopex.io at 14.62% APY. Will likely withdraw and enter ETH SSOV's at the next epoch (+63.05% APY).
So that leaves us with more stablecoins, more market neutral positioning and added a little bit at these prices to improve our average entry into a few medium risk plays.
Here's a statistical approach for thinking about pair trading ✍️
This framework might help you no matter what your strategy is.
Let's take a deeper look at $ARB / $LDO, and how you might profit from this...
There are 2 ways of pair trading:
1) Narrative based 2) Statistical Arbitrage
Most trades on Pear Protocol are narrative trades i.e. you build a story why Asset A will outperform Asset B (in any market condition) and enter a long/short pos.
Here we'll focus on 2) Stat-Arb
Q1 - "Is there a statistical relationship between these two assets?"
Usually we jump to correlation for this (see below image lol).
More important than correlation, is this relationship between $ARB and $LDO constant over time? AND does it mean revert when it deviates away?
1. If you, as a retail buyer want to buy $IBTC (the iShares spot bitcoin ETF), then you'd go to your broker/online platform and swap your $ for shares in the ETF. The broker would go and buy the shares on the exchange (Nasdaq) on your behalf. Easy.
2. This is what we call the 'secondary' market. The shares already exist, and you can buy them at the market price. But what if there are no ETF shares available in the secondary market?
People don't really understand what Blackrock is, or what they do.
So let's go inside...
But first a little about their founder and CEO Larry Fink, since it will be important later
Larry joined Wall St in 1976. He was smart and made money. He pioneered the idea of debt securitization (packaging up different loans as bonds). He then ran the trading desk for those Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). Yes, those bonds that led to the 2008 GFC 🤯