Trading
Market structure, liquidity and dealer behaviour — who is on the other side, and how their hedging shows up on your chart.
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Dealer Series · Part I
Liquidity and inventory rebalancing
Who is on the other side of your trade — how dealers quote both sides, why they end up with inventory they never wanted, and what they do about it.
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Gamma exposure and inventory rebalancing
The same hedge rule with opposite sign: long gamma dampens the tape into a range, short gamma amplifies every move. How to tell which regime you are in.
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Pinning: how dealer hedging holds price in a range
Why price so often stalls between the call wall and the put wall into expiry — the mechanics of pinning, where it stops being mechanical, and a Coinbase-liquidity vs Deribit-options walkthrough.
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