This is from the WSJ write up of Infinity Q Diversified Alpha, the mutual fund that misvalued a bunch of weird equity derivatives to hide a $500m losshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-mysterious-demise-of-a-1-7-billion-mutual-fund-11618911000 …
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One of the misvaluations was, uh, marking a profit on a variance swap position that would only have been possible if volatility had traded negative
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Question for you: if the underlying asset defaults, does the volatility go to zero?pic.twitter.com/L0YbIgmRU0
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Since volatility is the square root of the variance, if variance went negative, we could even have imaginary vol! Imagine that.
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Those damn theta gangers not gonna know what hit em
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"Do you even square root, bro?"
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S&P500 vol can't go to zero, and that is why I like Private Equity better. No vol.
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Spoken like a true institution!
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