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What is Options Vega?
Vega is a measure of the impact of changes in implied volatility on the option price. Specifically, the vega of an option expresses the change in the price of the option for every 1% change in implied volatility.

Options tend to be more expensive when volatility is higher. Thus, whenever volatility goes up, the price of the option goes up and when volatility drops, the price of the option will also fall.

Example
A stock XYZ is trading at $46 in May and a JUN 50 call is selling for $2. Let's assume that the vega of the option is 0.15 and that the underlying volatility is 25%.

If the underlying volatility increased by 1% to 26%, then the price of the option should rise to $2 + 0.15 = $2.15.
However, if the volatility had gone down by 2% to 23% instead, then the option price should drop to $2 - (2 x 0.15) = $1.70

Passage of time and its effects on the vega
The more time remaining to option expiration, the higher the vega. This makes sense as time value makes up a larger proportion of the premium for longer term options and it is the time value that is sensitive to changes in volatility.

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Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s?

Alberto Giacometti’s 1955 bust, “Grande tête mince" (“Big Thin Head”), carried a pre-sale estimate of $70 million in Sotheby’s Modern evening auction. The auctioneer started the bidding at $59 million dollars. But no one bid - the piece went unsold. It was the second high-profile lot to disappoint in two days. Andy Warhol’s “Big Electric Chair” (1967-68) was withdrawn from Christie’s 20th century evening auction the day before.

Is the fine art market in trouble?

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are heading up Donald Trump's newly created Department of Government Efficiency which plans to take aim at wasteful government spending. On the campaign Elon Musk claimed that he could cut two trillion dollars in government spending. What would those cuts look like and how likely is Elon Musk to succeed? Does Elon Musk have too many conflicts of interest to do this job?

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Did Warren Buffett go on a stock buying spree? In todays video we discuss whether Buffett feels markets are still too greedy right now or if it is time to buy. We will discuss the upcoming Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and how it will be livestreamed this year.

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In todays video we discuss what the biggest investors have been doing in the recent market downturn. We talk about Warren Buffett, Leon Cooperman and Carl Icahn.
Berkshire Hathaway investors have been waiting for the company to put its cash pile to work. Warren Buffett has had a few quarters of active stock buying in the past few years, but the company's cash hoard has been growing since its last major purchase - the January 2016 acquisition of Precision Castparts.
Berkshire has about $128 billion in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet. Since the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting bear market began, investors have been waiting to see if the company will finally make some big moves.
No major investments have come to fruition - at least not in the acquisition department. And judging by recent comments by Charlie Munger, there are no big acquisition targets in the company's immediate future.
Berkshire could be putting some of its money to work in the stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first important date for investors to watch is when Berkshire releases its first-quarter earnings report on Friday May 1 at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2020. We'll get a glimpse of how much cash the company had as of March 31, when the bear market was already well underway. If the cash hoard has declined significantly, we can infer that Berkshire has been doing some stock buying since there haven't been any major acquisitions announced.
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Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday that government support to companies struggling during the coronavirus crisis is likely to change capitalism forever and that politics are moving to the left in the USA and taxes will need to go up—regardless of who wins the 2020 presidential election in November.
In addition we discuss Carl Icahn, his Mall Short using CMBS, how he bought oil at a negative price, and his market outlook.

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Warren Buffett stocks 2020

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The Los Angeles wildfires have destroyed more than 12,000 structures and at least 24 people have died with more unaccounted for as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, continue to burn. Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs estimate that the destruction will cost insurers as much as $30 billion dollars and after accounting for non-insured damages, the total costs will balloon to $40 billion. The ongoing fires, already appear to be the costliest wildfire event in California history.

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In this video, we examine the implications of Trump’s latest trade deals —from the one-sided EU deal to politically charged moves against Brazil. Are the deals being structured to exclude China from global supply chains and are these tariffs just about trade, or something more? We explore how constant changes are disrupting business activity, whether manufacturing is really coming back to the U.S., and what history tells us about protectionism’s impact on innovation and productivity.

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Why are some homeowners thriving while others are struggling to keep up? In this video, we explore how America’s housing market has fractured—creating a sharp divide between those who locked in low mortgage rates and those buying today at much higher costs.

We’ll unpack:

The lock-in effect and its impact on geographic mobility
Why millennials face deeper inequality within their own generation
How renters are absorbing the full brunt of housing inflation
The role of tariffs, interest rates, and investor behavior
International comparisons with the UK and China
Why your mortgage might be the most important financial instrument you own
From sticky inflation to shifting migration patterns, this is the story of how housing finance is reshaping the American economy—and the lives of millions.

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1720 was a year of two bubbles and a plague. The bubbles were the Mississippi Company in France –and the South Sea Bubble in England. In September 1720 - when the bubble burst, England was plunged into an economic and political crisis. This was one of the first examples of a financial boom and bust and was the event that gave rise to the use of the term bubble to describe a spectacular market failure.

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What is Volatility Arbitrage?

Volatility arbitrage is a trading strategy that attempts to profit from the difference between the forecasted price-volatility of an asset, like a stock, and the implied volatility of options on that asset.

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How does Volatility Arbitrage Work?
The price of an option is driven by the volatility of the underlying asset. If the forecasted and implied volatilities differ, there will be a discrepancy between the expected price of the option and its actual market price.

A volatility arbitrage strategy can be implemented through a delta-neutral portfolio consisting of an option and its underlying asset. For example, if a trader thought a stock option was underpriced because implied volatility was too low, they may buy a call option and combine that with a short position in the underlying stock to profit from that forecast. If the price of the stock doesn't move, but the implied volatility used to price that option rises, then the price of the option will rise. Even if this does not get recognized by the market, but the stock realizes higher volatility than was implied in the initial price, the trading strategy explained in the video will generate a profit for the trader.

Alternatively, if the trader believes that implied volatility is too high and will fall, then they may decide to take a long position in the stock and a short position in a put option. Assuming the stock's price doesn't move, the trader may profit as the option falls in value with a decline in implied volatility.

There are several assumptions a trader must make, which will increase the complexity of a volatility arbitrage strategy. First, the investor must be right about whether implied volatility really is over- or underpriced. Second, the investor must be correct about the amount of time it will take for the strategy to profit or time value erosion could outpace any potential gains. Finally, if the price of the underlying stock moves more quickly than expected the strategy will have to be adjusted, which may be expensive or impossible depending on market conditions.

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Elon Musk says his new online encyclopedia Grokipedia will fix Wikipedia’s flaws by replacing human editors with AI. But can a chatbot really deliver “the whole truth and nothing but the truth” as he says? In this video, we dive into the battle between Wikipedia’s messy, transparent consensus and Grokipedia’s algorithmic certainty.

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