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SI236: New Opportunities in Volatility Trading ft. Cem Karsan

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Volatility: A Secular Opportunity

A lot of investors, as I said before, came to vol a few years ago expecting that this would be a good place to hide out in a situation where we were maybe moving more towards sort of crisis periods. There was a record amount of hedging going on, particularly in the S&P 500 at the top in the market skew is at record levels. Once the losses started coming in on the vol, there's a liquidation because you're losing on both sides of the trade. Things are getting liquidated. Pain essentially forces positioning out and pain and gain the other way.

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