@bennpeifert When looking at implied correlation rather than implied vol gap it becomes a bit of a different story. Anyway, being short dispersion is a massive headache in your average day
@SystematicPeter The IV you are using is not pricing the median daily move, but prices also large single-day moves in events within the maturity you are looking at, like earnings. Because of this, is not fair to say "like vix but for stocks". You should use implied background vol (IV-events vol)
@christinaqi First one needs a army to work properly: IT infrastructure, data engineers to get him all the nice data, traders to sanity check what he does and execute/monitor strategies.
Second one is a one man army
@Fxhedgers Such a stupid graph. Cost of buying a x% Call is also at a very low level, because volatility is down. If you want to have an idea of relative cheapness of hedge against downside (skew), you need to plot Cost of x% Put/Cost of x% Call