Volume I

Issue 1: 12 August 2011

• Editorial Comment: Volatility has tails and it can fly
• Tutorial: Understanding Historical Volatility
• Markets: Derivatives Trading Terminology
• Product Idea for Equity Market: Single Asset, Best of Option
• Profile: The Silent Mafioso – I: The Man who once Ruled Deutsche Bank
• Book Review: Options on Foreign Exchange, 3rd Edition

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Issue 2: 20 August 2011

• Editorial Comment: Fixated and VIXated on Volatility
• Tutorial: Does Historical Volatility Have a Memory?
• Product Idea: Principal Protected Bull Note
• Markets: Trading and Markets Terminology
• Once Upon A Time: Morgan Stanley and the Birth of Statistical Arbitrage
• Profile: The Silent Mafioso – II: The Man who once Ruled Deutsche Bank
• Book Review: The Handbook of Exotic Options, Edited by Israel Nelken

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Issue 3: 26 August 2011

• Editorial Comment: My Volatility has Volatility
• Tutorial: Is there a Formula for Implied Volatility?
• Product Idea: A Money Back Equity Option
• Markets: Trading and Markets Terminology
• Once Upon A Time: Remembering Lehman Brothers and the Death Spiral Convertible Bonds
• Profile: The Silent Mafioso – III: The Man who once Ruled Deutsche Bank
• Book Review: The Handbook of Convertible Bonds, by Jan De Spiegeleer & Wim Schoutens

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Issue 4: 6 September 2011

• Editorial Comment: That Tub of Milk and So Much Financial Pain!
• Tutorial: Estimating Implied Volatility Numerically
• Product Idea: Pay Later Equity Option
• Down the History Lane: Using Logarithm to Create and Asset: The Log Contract
• Profile: The Silent Mafioso – IV: The Man who once Ruled Deutsche Bank
• Book Review: The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

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