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Re:The Trillion Dollar Equation [video] by helsinkiandrew on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:26AM (#39589174)
People have been trading options and futures on the volatility of the S&P500 for years:

https://www.cboe.com/tradable_products/vix/vix_options/

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Re:The Trillion Dollar Equation [video] by throwawayFinX on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:06AM (#39591994)
This is also (slightly) incorrect.

When trading the VIX, you are trading the implied volatility not the actual (realized) volatility.

VIX represents the implied vol of options on S&P500 expiring 30 days into the future.

Trading the realized volatility is not easy :)

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