The Options Insider Radio Network

Volatility Viewpoint: Today's guest is Tom Lee, Managing Director at Investment Strategy and Research at Parametric. He discusses: What is Parametric? Who are their customers? What do they trade? Harvesting risk premium VIX: Is it rigged? Volatility Review: A look back at the week from a volatility perspective VIX Cash - 12.53 VVIX - 90.5 VIX Options - ADV: 592k, VIX call/put: 2.8/1, Total 6.67m (4.94m Calls, 1.72m Puts) VXX - 33.81 Volatility Voicemail: Options question of the week Holiday Weekends are notoriously tough for VIX traders. The markets love to crush Volatility going into these events. So we thought we'd poll the savvy VIX traders in our audience - where do you think VIX will OPEN on Tues 5/29? Here: 12-14 Higher: 14-16 Lower: 10.5-12 Much Higher: >16 Listener questions and comments: Comment from James1 - I took a flyer on a couple hundred VXX Jan 10 puts for .03 after learning about them on your shows. Seems like I'm not alone as a few hundred thousand others appear to have joined the par