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SI166: Riding the Waves of Volatility ft. Hari Krishnan

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High Inflation Is Inherently Destabilizing

High inflation is inherently destabilizing. So if you can trade long volatility without too much direction, implied direction a, i should think that would be effected. If i bought five years in maturity puss on the s and p with aid, that was 50 out of the money,. so it had to strike of, let's say, 23 hundred um. It doesn't really matter if the market goes up or down. It only matters if volatility five years out gets re-priced. The classic case is just buying a straddle. You buy a put and a coal, same strike at wherever the market is, the forward is. And you benefit from two sided uncertainty in that way.

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