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Robert Zingale

Individual Investor

When I am not working at Google, I have a passion for investing and have been actively investing for my personal accounts since I was an undergraduate. I was also involved with student run investment club while at Cornell University.

Investment style

Volatility statistical arbitrage

How I got started

Through my studies, I learned about the returns generated by backwardation and contango from futures. Therefore, I researched whether any futures tend to constantly stay in either backwardation or contango and were also easy to exploit. As a result, I found that volatility futures are consistently in contango. Additionally, I realized that the only way to accurately statistically model an asset was for the asset to have a mean reverting level. Since VIX futures have this characteristic as well, this is my investment strategy.

Personal Interests

In my spare time, I enjoy researching option trading strategies. Due to the complexities of option pricings, I find this area of trading to be the most interesting. I have found exploitable instances where the Black-Scholes pricing model breaks down due to its normal distribution assumption, especially on OTM LEAPS.


Investment models

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