investors began to look at volatility from a different angle. It happened due to emergence of a market for new derivative …Traditionally volatility is viewed as a measure of variability, or risk, of an underlying asset. However recently … instruments - variance swaps. In this paper first we introduse the general idea of the volatility trading using variance swaps …

volatility derivatives. In the first part, the book develops a unifying theory for the analysis of contingent claims under both …This book presents a factor-based model of the stochastic evolution of the implied volatility surface. The model allows … the real-world measure and the risk-neutral measure in an environment of stochastic implied volatility. On the basis of …