Showing posts with label volatility regimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volatility regimes. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Opalesque TV interviews volatility fund Maple Leaf Capital



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Subduing the enemy: The Ins and Outs of Volatility Trading

Michael Wexler is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Maple Leaf Capital. Opalesque BACKSTAGE video Michael Wexler says Volatility is the enemy of most investment strategies, which generally do better in rising than falling markets. Veteran volatility trader Michael Wexler from Maple Leaf Capital explains how investors can actually profit from volatility by employing strategies that make more money in higher volatility than low vol environments. This is possible because the dislocation in the pricing of options between fair value and actual trading is greater at higher volatility levels. Historically, Maple Leaf's funds have historically made money in both rising and falling markets.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Goldman Sachs' Quantitative Strategies Research Notes

Here is a collection of Quantitative Strategies Research Notes released by Goldman Sachs over the years, all of which are hosted by the man himself.  Obviously a bit dated, they nonetheless contain a wealth of information whether viewed in the context of their time of writing or used as proxies for today's market.  Much of Derman's research during his tenure at Goldman was/is foundational in nature and remain relevant to today's market operatives.

The usual reader will notice some overlap between the following and this blog's bibliography, one that has not been updated recently.  All of the following are PDFs.

December, 1992: Valuing Options on Periodically-Settled Stocks

January, 1994: The Volatility Smile and Its Implied Tree

May, 1994: Static Options Replication

November, 1994: Valuing Convertible Bonds as Derivatives

May, 1995: Enhanced Numerical Methods for Options with Barriers

December, 1995: The Local Volatility Surface: Unlocking the Information in Index Options

February, 1996: Implied Trinomial Trees of the Volatility Smiles

April, 1996: Model Risk

August, 1996: Trading and Hedging Local Volatility

April, 1997: Stochastic Implied Trees: Arbitrage Pricing With Stochastic Term and Strike Structure of Volatility

January, 1999: Regimes of Volatility: Some Observations on the Variation of S&P 500 Implied Volatilities

March, 1999: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Volatility Swaps

July, 1999: Strike-Adjusted Spread: A New Metric For Estimating The Value of Equity Options

If anyone is aware of others hosted out there, please feel free to throw the link in the comments of this post.