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Last time we saw this kind of overnight volatility spike was back in early 2022. The headlines are screaming this morning—a third US carrier deployed, Trump addressing the nation on Iran. My first instinct, honed over five years as a market maker in Chicago, isn't to panic buy puts. It's to pull up the VIX chart. As I expected, we're seeing a gap u...

Geopolitical headlines are just noise until they start pricing into volatility, and right now, the options market is whispering, not shouting. I woke up this morning to alerts about Iran, US talks, and restored nuclear sites. My first instinct wasn't to check crude oil prices. It was to check the VIX term structure and front-month implied volatilit...