Low volatility is a widely follow investment factor and it can be argued that in the nearly five years since the PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II ...
Stochastic volatility is the unpredictable nature of asset price volatility over time. It's a flexible alternative to the Black Scholes' constant volatility assumption.
It is doubtful that any level of sophistication in the use of financial instruments will ever create a new paradigm of permanently lower volatility. Complicated derivatives and securitizations are ...
The Black-Scholes model remains the 2026 gold standard for pricing trillions in derivatives. It uses five key data points: stock price, strike, time, interest rates, and volatility. This math-heavy ...
In Know Your Options, I tend to mention Implied Volatility quite often. I’m sure most readers already understand the general idea that options with high IVs are expensive and options with low IVs are ...