What is Volatility Carry? | Options Education

What is Volatility Carry?
Macro Options Spotlight | February 23, 2023

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Using our proprietary Volatility Dashboards, you can quickly scan across the critical inputs needed to gauge vol and spot metrics for spotting trade opportunities.

One of our key metrics to understand whether it's a good time to be buying options is a term called Volatility Carry.

TLDR: Vol Carry = Implied Vol - Realized Vol. But there's more to it than that, so watch the video and start taking your options education to the next level!

𝞂 Chapters 𝞂
00:15 | Introducing Volatility Carry
00:33 | Carry Refers to Theta (Time Decay)
00:50 | Earning Carry
01:12 | Closer Look at Our Volatility Dashboard
01:43 | Equation for Volatility Carry
02:50 | How to Read Our Carry Indicator
04:00 | Positive Carry vs. Negative Carry

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[registervg]

Thanks Imran. These videos are super helpful to understand the fundamentals. Cheers, Vidya

[VuNguyen-pduq]

Thank you. Been hearing you mentioning quite a lot about Carry but never get to understand what it means.

[akifdin]

Absolute legend! Great info as always Imran !!

[roger_rogers]

i don't usually take financial advice from people with a popped collar, but you seem pretty clever.