Mastering Volatility: Understanding and Utilizing PutDex with NationsIndexes.com

Introducing Nations' custom index designed to measure the normalized cost of put options. Knowing these values quantify market insights and enhance your trading strategies.

Learn about deconstructing option skew, focusing on four key regions: at the money, out of the money puts, deep out of the money puts, and out of the money calls.

Nations VolDex, PutDex, TailDex, and CallDex, are compared, explaining how these tools provide transparency and context that traditional indexes like VIX cannot.

This video dives deep into PutDex, explaining its calculation, relevance, and potential for trading strategies, by comparing it across major equity indexes like the S&P 500, Russell 2000, and NASDAQ 100.

Equip yourself with objective data and unique insights to become a better trader. Watch until the end to see important historical statistics for PutDex and learn how to craft superior trades by integrating NationsIndexes' advanced analytics.

00:00 Introduction to Nations Indexes
00:50 Understanding Option Skew
02:19 Deconstructing Skew: Four Key Regions
04:26 The Importance of Objective Data
06:19 Deep Dive into PutDex
10:21 Comparing PutDex Across Indexes
12:02 Conclusion and Further Insights

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Scott Nations is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Nations Indexes, the world’s leading independent developer of volatility and option cost indexes. Nations Indexes grew out of his previous work leading proprietary equity index option trading firms during 25 years as a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

During that work his team created the Nations Indexes suite of option volatility and option cost indexes including VolDex® (ticker symbol VOLI) which measures implied volatility on the S&P 500 and TailDex® (ticker symbol TDEX) which quantifies how much investors are willing to pay to protect their portfolios.