Volatility Trading Explained: A Comprehensive Guide: How Options, Futures, and VIX Really Interact Across Market Regimes - Couverture souple

Van Der Post, Hayden; Bisette, Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798241121608

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

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Volatility Trading Explained is a definitive, mechanics-first guide to how volatility actually behaves across markets—and how professional traders exploit it using options, futures, and volatility indices.

Most traders treat volatility as a side effect of price. This book shows why that framing is wrong.

Volatility is its own market, with its own structure, feedback loops, and regime shifts. Options, futures, and the VIX are not separate instruments, they are tightly coupled expressions of the same underlying volatility dynamics. Understanding how they interact is the difference between guessing and trading with intent.

Written for serious traders and investors, this book breaks down:

• How implied volatility, realized volatility, and forward volatility interact

• Why options are often structurally mispriced relative to future volatility

• How futures markets transmit volatility expectations across time

• What the VIX actually measures, and what it does not

• How volatility behaves differently in trending, range-bound, crisis, and compression regimes

• Why many popular “volatility strategies” fail outside narrow conditions

Rather than offering generic setups, the book focuses on regime awareness—showing how the same structure can behave very differently depending on market context. You’ll learn when to sell volatility, when to own it, and when to stay out entirely.

The second half of the book moves from theory to execution. You’ll find:

• Practical volatility-based strategies across options, futures, and volatility products

• Risk-defined structures designed for asymmetric outcomes

• Clear position sizing and drawdown control frameworks

• Python code examples for analyzing volatility regimes, term structure, and signal confirmation

• Walkthroughs showing how professional traders translate volatility signals into trades

This is not a beginner’s introduction, nor a collection of disconnected tactics. It is a cohesive volatility framework designed to help you see the market the way institutional desks do, through the lens of probability, structure, and regime.

If you want to stop reacting to price and start understanding the forces that drive it, Volatility Trading Explained gives you the map.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798241121608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 411
• Éditeur: Schwartz Alice
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg