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#11 dasein

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Posted 17 October 2007 - 08:26 PM

BTW, despite the larger and larger volatility over the past few days, the IV went down today. There is not much serious sellers out there and the market knows, ...at least a short term low migth be in...


yes i was puzzled by this, my thought is that given complacency is underpricing vol as well as risk its a negative sign...or perhaps opton demand is not there, but that woud be extreme - how do you come to conclude that it is because there are not enough sellers? this isnt a challenge, just puzzled.

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#12 arbman

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Posted 17 October 2007 - 08:57 PM

It is drifting up on low volume, had today's volume been all distribution, the indices would've been significantly lower by the close since it was the highest volume of the past several sessions. The fuse is getting shorter, but I am not sure this is where it explodes...