Markets: A Rigorous Course

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M09 Volatility and option trading 17

  1. P1 Realised volatility from OHLC ★ Check
  2. P2 The fourth moment of the range and Parkinson's efficiency ★★ Check
  3. P3 Unbiasedness of Garman–Klass and Rogers–Satchell ★★★
  4. P4 A day in the life of a hedged option seller ★ Check
  5. P5 Expected P&L and drift ★★★
  6. P6 Robustness and its limits ★★
  7. P7 The variance risk premium in a two-state economy ★★ Check
  8. P8 Variance-swap replication and discretisation ★★ Check
  9. P9 Variance notional and convexity ★ Check
  10. P10 Iron condor arithmetic ★★ Check
  11. P11 Expiry-day gamma ★★ Check
  12. P12 Kelly with a fat left tail ★★ Check
  13. P13 Sticky delta ★★ Check
  14. P14 Case analysis: leveraged volatility products ★★★ Check
  15. P15 Case analysis: expiry-day leverage in the Jane Street interim order ★★ Check
  16. P16 Costs and margin for an Indian short strangle ★★ Check
  17. P17 Reading India VIX ★ Check

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