Ben Eifert
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And that was like, how does this actually look once real money goes into these strategies?
Cause at the end of the day, derivatives markets are big and deep and liquid, but they're not primary markets, right?
They're derivatives markets.
You can't they're not designed for like global asset allocation for twenty percent of the of all the money in the world to go into selling them, right?
Yeah.
The size of short dated option selling is very, very large.
It's very, very one way.
Again, there's different flows in different parts of the option market, right?
But if you look at one month
range options that are not that far out of the money, call like 25 delta put wing to call wing.
The overwhelming end user of that product is selling it for income or for, you know, for a asset allocation type of strategy.
And what that means is, you know, the f all of the flows on the floor for brokers and banks are giant trades to sell constantly.
And the people that are
Are buying them are people like like us who are buying them because they're too cheap, not because we have any other reason to buy them.
Right.
So go go ahead, Joe.
Yeah, absolutely.
So taking this example of short dated option selling for for instance, the first thing you want to look at is is the relative price.
And what is that in the world of options and volatility?
It's the term structure of volatility, right?
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