In this week's episode David and Imran speak to Conrad Carvalho, Head of Trading at Oaktree and Lion, a proprietary trading and research firm specializing in crypto options. David gives his update on the latest macro developments over the last few weeks as we head into a week of key data from FOMC, Non-farm payrolls, and Mega-cap tech earnings. Imran and Conrad discuss the latest vol crush in crypto options and Conrad explains some of the approaches he uses to extract value from mis-pricings in the vol surface while running a market-neutral strategy. This is another great example of an equity derivatives professional with decades of experience finding the allure of crypto vol an opportunity too good to miss.
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0:00 Introduction
0:37 Special guest: Conrad Carvalho & Recap of the Recent Crypto Events
3:25 Current Price Action on Bitcoin
4:29: Background of Oaktree and Lion and Conrad's Role
9:33: How to Spot Changes in Spot/Vol Correlation?
13:26 Positioning on Crypto Flows & Differences in TradFi vs Crypto
18:00 Adoption in Crypto and Changes in Crypto Due to Maturity
21:42 Trade Ideas on Vol Surface, 5 Strategies from Conrad
23:42 Foreseeable Macro Risk Factors by David
25:23 Thoughts on the FOMC Meeting & US Data
29:14 Is the Macro Data Indicating New Highs for Crypto?
31:27 Still Short Volatility? & Current Trade Ideas for this year
34:09 ETH/BTC Ratio & Looking at ETH Relative Value
37:07 Altseason incoming? David's Meme Adventure & Key Takeaways

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