Little follow up from the IV and VIX watching front, spotted in the Nifty market:
EOD to see when the excersise was started:
http://i61.tinypic.com/2rrw481.png
- 10.09.2014 (EOD):
http://i57.tinypic.com/34rcg8j.jpg
- 11.09.2014 (EOD):
http://i60.tinypic.com/apb3f6.png
- 12.09.2014 (EOD):
http://i59.tinypic.com/xoejj4.png
- 15.09.2014 (EOD):
http://i59.tinypic.com/2enm2wo.png
- 16.09.2014
............. During the morning option matrix:
http://i59.tinypic.com/20kdlc3.png
............. (EOD):
http://i61.tinypic.com/25i5a43.png
............. VIX (EOD) chart:
http://i58.tinypic.com/2jgyz5.png
- 17.09.2014
............ Morning option matrix:
http://i61.tinypic.com/szajk6.png
............ (EOD):
http://i60.tinypic.com/34hti81.png
............ VIX (EOD) chart:
http://i62.tinypic.com/24obq6q.png
- 18.09.2014
............ Morning option matrix:
http://i58.tinypic.com/25ewoxi.png
............ During the day option matrix:
http://i58.tinypic.com/vrpsth.png
............ (EOD):
http://i59.tinypic.com/2iu6of9.png
............ VIX (EOD) chart:
http://i58.tinypic.com/152dl5y.png
And the winner of today is? Stock 72 :thumb:
(Well done)
- Traders who trade short atm straddles had to do some work today. Even shorter of Strangles did sit on some fire today. Those are the days those specific option traders really have to know what they do and this specially when do trade those option strategies in the current month series, on an intra day level and not in a larger time frames. Very specific job in option trading
- The thoughts and comments made in the forum in the past, that only short option players can make money, is clearly proved wrong an other time with the example from Stock 72. Not a daily example, but one which counts.
- In todays strong up move in Nifty, the VIX clearly came down. So your VIX seems to work like in any other index market under such conditions and was expected to work like that. In sideway days it seems that your VIX is acting as veiled as it can as posted before. So nothing more to get out of that and the VIX topic to me is closed. If you want to further follow it to may get some thing more out of it, here the link:
http://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/vix_home_page.htm
Coming to the remaining topic about the IV in the Nifty options:
- Not much to tell about how the IV was doing in yesterdays Nifty market, which was a side ways day with nice swings around 40 points. Not easy to catch, depending on how your system is worked out and filtered. One interesting fact was that the daily bar was an inside bar. I do not follow many chart patterns in the markets I trade, but I would recommend to keep that pattern in your list.
- Now today there was this beautiful, running up market and you may soon see your next all time high in Nifty like this view shows the all time top of the world, which is the Himalaya
http://i60.tinypic.com/346xmz9.jpg The IV of the itm calls compare to the IV from the itm puts was around the same level in the morning. During the day the IV in the itm calls rises (Demand), as it at the same time came down in the itm puts.
The IV of the atm calls came down a tiny bit during the day and the IV of the atm puts came clearly down during the day. On the other hand the IV during the day of the otm calls came clearly down as the IV of the otm puts did clearly come down. So according to VIX: If VIX comes down as it did during the day, the otm options will first reflect that fact. Check the next time what happens when it is vice versa in a strong falling market.
If you have better conclusions to that, kindly post it.
That's it for the moment until the last update on that exercise. Take care and enjoy your evening / Dan
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