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Trading Options at Expirations Profiting form Price Distortions in Very Brief Time Frames Jeff Augen

Chapter 1 Basic Concepts Calculating yield have to account for margin requirement (on short side) Take advantage of occasional pricing inefficiencies that arise in the options market earnings announcements, expiration week, weekend time decay, intraday implied volatility swings, differences between overnight and intraday volatility, or news and rumours Chapter 2 New Directions in Automated Trading Chapter 3 Trading Volatility Distortions Estimation intraday volatility

Trading volatility distortions simplest direction-neutral trade is log straddle/strangle Strangle puts and calls at different strikes For the above select socks that exhibit high frequency of intraday spikes measuring the standard deviations of these spikes Simulate price changes by using Black-Scholes formula Chapter 4 Working with Intraday Price Spike Charts Trading using 2-minute price changes in standard deviations measured against most recent 20-pricechange in histogram form

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