Volatility Trading 101

An intuitive guide to delta hedging

Roman Paolucci
Towards Data Science
5 min readMay 27, 2020

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A large client wants to purchase 100,000 AAPL call options with the following parameters:

  • Strike Price: 350
  • Spot Price: 320
  • Implied Volatility: 30%
  • Risk-free rate: 8%
  • Time until expiration: 1 year

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