How do traders use volatility for trading?

Option Greeks Implied Volatility How do traders use volatility for trading?

You can read a detailed answer here – The impact of vix in Indian Stock market

But, Let’s talk about Vega. The option’s vega is a measure of the impact of changes in the underlying volatility on the option price.

Motherson Sumi had results yesterday.
Indian Bank had results today.

What my strategy is – Sell options before the results events based on –

Checking past results which created a synthetic effect on this stock and the momentum of direction.
Support and Resistance
OI Support and Resistance.

Now here lies a problem, there is no site where IV of a stock is properly calculated eyeing on the aspect that Indian Market is illiquid. So I made one. You can use here.

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You can see in the above image how SBI is acting synthetically on the results of Punjab National Bank and Indian Bank.

You need to have ample margin to a firefight on the worst case which hasn’t happened since ever once this results season (let’s don’t jinx it)

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Now, You can see clearly how Indian Bank today affected BankNIFTY by synthetically affecting SBI which has results on Friday. If X gives good results, so should Y. Simple theory!

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