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Throughout this book, citations are inline in the form (Author, Year), occasionally with chapter or page reference. The text synthesizes the cited works in the Old Wolf voice — paraphrased, recontextualized, and applied to retail-trader scenarios. Verbatim quotation has been kept to a minimum and is always marked. Where industry conventions are mentioned (e.g., the 21-DTE rule, profit-take heuristics), the conventions are drawn from broadly-published practitioner sources — primarily Sinclair (2010, 2013), McMillan (2012), and material from the tastylive / tastytrade educational corpus.

Empirical claims (e.g., percentages of options held to expiry, IV rank distributions) draw on OCC clearing statistics and exchange-published data. Where exact figures are quoted, the original source’s most recent available data has been used; readers should consult current sources for the latest numbers.

This book is not an academic work. It is a teaching artifact built on a foundation of academic and practitioner literature. The synthesis is the author’s; the foundations are the cited works'. Errors of interpretation are the author’s alone.