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Strategies & Market Trends : Swing Trading With Options -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: underdog430 who wrote (41)	8/8/2001 6:54:37 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 88

430, re: Finally, regulation FD has dampened historical volatility and so of course implied volatility goes down as well. They cite a USC study to support this claim but I'm a bit skeptical. It really does seem that Reg FD has increased volatility, with more big gaps, but even if that it isn't true it seems really unlikely that it has caused volatility to decrease. Seems unlikely. Decimalization, on the other hand, may be decreasing volatility. And also the profitable spreads on the options (though the spreads seem to be getting wider to me). John