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Volatility is almost universally misunderstood: that one number can imply any number of market conditions, all of which mean different things to different investors. That's because volatility assumes stocks prices move in a certain way, but this model is limited and unrealistic. Put options are used to hedge against big downward swings in prices, which are a very specific face of high volatility...
Either way, if there was an extended downward move in equity prices, those who did not buy insurance would be in some trouble, but those who sold insurance too low would be in even greater financial peril...
Options are not like other insurance policies - say health insurance. Stocks tend to move together, whereas one person's health tends to vary independent of the nation's health. Risk to health-insurance companies decreases as the number of policies increases; risk compounds for options writers as their volume increases. Those writing put options have secured small gains for now, but they will suffer multiplied losses across the board should the market tank...
...President or some other official say once or twice that pork is safe," Vilsack said, "and then they hear the term swine flu on TV and the Internet 50 times in a single day." The blame-the-media fallback is surely overstated, but for pork farmers trying to move the merch, less swine and more H1N1 in headlines will nonetheless be welcome...
...from the text, there are no page numbers to be found, and the speaker adopts the royal “we” for a period (though not without specifying parenthetically each time that what he means is “I”). But the work is so moving not because of these eccentricities but rather because of the artfulness with which Hoffmann articulates the smallest events. “Stairwells make us weep,” he says, “And small kitchens. Sometimes you see a fork and you just want to die. There...