Greetings from Gudauri, Georgia!

This weekend we have come to the Georgian Ski resort in Gudauri and booked a lovely 60m2 apartment just next to the ski lifts. Unfortunately, there is little snow this season (at least yet) in Georgia.

Gudauri - Georgian Winter Capital for skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, and heli-skiing

Last week was another sucker for the TerraM token, we tried to hedge with futures, but because of the price oscillation got squeezed out of the market.

For the second week in a row, the total value of the TerraM token actually decreased.

Bad luck and overtrading with futures are to blame. We tend to hedge every open position with futures. The downside of such hedging is price oscillation. This is what actually happened to us last week a few times.

Ethereum challenged our strike prices, which we hedged with futures, but then a pullback happened, which again made pain for the futures.

For the future, we have decided to limit our hedging with futures, instead focusing - on buying puts and selling credit spreads

Trading is not an easy business, and trading with futures can be very dangerous.

Anyhow, despite the total value decreased (we still rolled up and away from challenged positions, and there is a great chance for recovery in the upcoming months)

With challenged positions rolled away, our 'poor man's crypto hedge fund' for options trading on Ethereum, made quite a decent $70.53 from expiring options trades this week.

All profit was distributed back to the token holders + used to increase liquidity on the Raydium pool. About 4.86% yield in 7 days.

Trades & Profit distribution

We use the capital raised with the TerraM token to sell options on Ethereum, and all profit incurred from options trades is distributed back to the TerraM token. 

Our goal is about 25-30% annual growth

In total, we had 5 options trades expiring on January 20, 2022, we took profit from 3 positions while rolling away 2 positions to Jan 27 and March 31 expiry.

From the option trades with Ethereum tokens on the Deribit trading platform last week, we were able to book 0.0455 ETH / $70.53 USD profit.

Every week on Fridays (after options expiry on the Deribit platform) we distribute profit back to the token holders + increase the liquidity pool to guarantee enough coin offerings on the Raydium exchange.

As TerraM's total supply is 10,000, this week each token holder received 0.00445 USD per token (70.53/10,000).

Profit was distributed in form of additional TerraM coins to the token holders from the TerraM token address with balances larger than 20 TerraM. Any uninvested token profit was kept on the Deribit trading platform to increase buying power.

Since the inception of the TerraM crypto hedge fund, we have already made and distributed $376.72 or about 25.95% yield (from the current value)

Open options trades

At the time of writing, we are holding 4 options trades open on Ethereum, with the following strikes and expiry dates

• January 27: 1x 1350 put; 1x 1600 call

• March 31: 2x 1500 calls;

Liquidity pool

We contributed to the Raydium liquidity pool with USDC/TerraM pair by staking an additional USDC 24.86 / TerraM 27.62

• Pool liquidity (TerraM): 223.97 TerraM

• Pool liquidity (USDC): 201.58USDC

This means that basically anyone can buy/sell 223.97 TerraM coins, which is about 2.23% of the total token supply. We plan to raise and keep our total liquidity on the Raydium pool to about 3-5% of the total coin supply.

Assets under the TerraM token

Most of the assets for TerraM token are held in ETH. Makes sense, as ETH is the coin we trade options with on the Deribit trading platform.

Additionally, we held reserves of 13.8% in USDC, 18.1% ETH, 1.5% in BTC and 0.4% in SOL

• USDC: 201.58 (+24.87)

• ETH: 0.168 (+0.0259)

• BTC: 0.00103972 (+0.00017838)

• SOL: 0.258110495 (+0.063825679)

• Tradeable ETH: 0.6136 (-0.2485)

We took quite an impressive hit by losing -0.2485 ETH last week, nevertheless, we hope to recover the loss and look at this as a paper loss (at least for now)

66.2%. of the total assets are used for actual trades on the deribit platform, while 33.8% are stored as reserves. We plan to rebalance the portfolio at the end of the month.

Price:

While we have set the 1:1 ratio exchange ratio between TerraM and USD, on the Raydium network 1 TerraM was trading at $0.88787312 (no changes)

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The Bottom Line

Despite a value loss, we took this week, we are truly excited at the start of this journey and we hope to be fully invested by mid-2023, until then, there are still 7,466 TerraM tokens available for investment.

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