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Volatility (LIVE IN VEGAS) panel discussion

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How to Take Advantage of Volatility

The S&P is going to have the same volatility, whether it's 10,000 points higher or 10,000 lower on a normalized day. So how do you take advantage of that? You say to yourself, the S&P normally moves this much at around these levels. Or if it's trading at 140, wait, what's going on? The best way to do that is look at a stock that you follow or you trade options on the week of earnings. It might be trading at its normalized volatility for earnings, which is much higher because you don't know what'll happen.

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