Very helpful video. Thank you. On the Volatility smile graph (for bullish markets), I guess the video does not explain on why the In-the-money calls have an Implied Vol (IV) that is so much higher than the At-the-money calls. Would you be able to explain briefly, please?
If market have the sentiment that stock will go down in futre, investors will sell ITM calls to earn much elevated premium and hence demand of such ITM calls increases.
Great video! The (small) issue I noticed was that the normal and not the log-normal distribution was plotted. S being log-normally distributed implied log-returns are normally distributed, and what was said applied better to log-returns. At any rate, thanks you so much for posting. I love all your FRM videos!
Thank you for the appreciation, Charles. The plot is indeed meant to be for the log normal distribution, I guess the free-hand drawing didn't do much justice to the intended distribution :)
Sir may be this channel is dedicated for exam purpose ,I came here just for understanding and improve knowledge about options .if you will help me littile bit Regarding that .i will be grateful.❤ As an example for volatility skew ,you have mentioned for institutional participants as they are exposed with huge number of equity position already baught they have always a downside risk ,so we used to get higher IV ( implied volatility) towards otm put sude means higher premium to otm put side . Are they increase iV by buying OTm put more ?? If upper statement is true below is my confusion. 1) volatility skew is referening ,for mitigate downside risk institutional particapants prefer put buying rarther than call selling .why so ? And second question , 2)When we check OI ( open interest ) for a strike price , as per volatility skew or volatility smile these are the huge buying position created by institution .but usually we used to say by seeing OI of a strike price that these are the seller's position ,they have made huge call short / put short on this strike ,but that is basically wrong actually that is the long position ,either call long / put long on that strike ..right ???
Very helpful video. Thank you. On the Volatility smile graph (for bullish markets), I guess the video does not explain on why the In-the-money calls have an Implied Vol (IV) that is so much higher than the At-the-money calls. Would you be able to explain briefly, please?
If market have the sentiment that stock will go down in futre, investors will sell ITM calls to earn much elevated premium and hence demand of such ITM calls increases.
Great video! The (small) issue I noticed was that the normal and not the log-normal distribution was plotted. S being log-normally distributed implied log-returns are normally distributed, and what was said applied better to log-returns. At any rate, thanks you so much for posting. I love all your FRM videos!
Thank you for the appreciation, Charles. The plot is indeed meant to be for the log normal distribution, I guess the free-hand drawing didn't do much justice to the intended distribution :)
Sir may be this channel is dedicated for exam purpose ,I came here just for understanding and improve knowledge about options .if you will help me littile bit
Regarding that .i will be grateful.❤
As an example for volatility skew ,you have mentioned for institutional participants as they are exposed with huge number of equity position already baught they have always a downside risk ,so we used to get higher IV ( implied volatility) towards otm put sude means higher premium to otm put side . Are they increase iV by buying OTm put more ??
If upper statement is true below is my confusion.
1) volatility skew is referening ,for mitigate downside risk institutional particapants prefer put buying rarther than call selling .why so ?
And second question ,
2)When we check OI ( open interest ) for a strike price , as per volatility skew or volatility smile these are the huge buying position created by institution .but usually we used to say by seeing OI of a strike price that these are the seller's position ,they have made huge call short / put short on this strike ,but that is basically wrong actually that is the long position ,either call long / put long on that strike ..right ???
Great