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State of Implied Volatility & Skew of S&P 500 (SPX) & Russell 2000 (RUT) Options (8/12/12)
Not much has changed since last week’s video so I didn’t feel like creating a duplicate. Below you can see the stats as of the end of last week (click to enlarge):
I’m ignoring August data because it’s the last weeks of trading for those options. I simply have them there for reference. The story is the same: getting short volatility is a much lower probability trade than getting long volatility. Calendars and back spreads seem to look ok.
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