Something to keep in mind when looking at or trading WTI/Brent. Going through the difference in prompt contract volatility behind the two and why it comes up, as some of it might be explained due to reference month divergence.
@DanielW80905866@HFI_Research@staunovo That's fair, but if you only have a futures-based proxy, I still think it's more relevant to avoid calendar effects
@HFI_Research@staunovo Altough the point still holds, it is a much cleaner representation, especially in times like these when the first two contracts can diverge by a lot
@calvinfroedge To list a few: main central bank buyers seeing depreciation of their currencies compared to dollar, high retail participation coming up to the move, fears of selling to fund further deficits, higher opportunity costs...
Wrote a blog on building intuition on why you should almost always be skewing your straddles to one side. I show an example in silver whose current extreme vol pricing makes your delta neutral straddle anything but neutral.