Talk:Variance swap

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Can someone tell me what a "Equity Variance Swap" is? -- Vincent
 * It's a variance swap on a stock or stock index. Finnancier 13:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Too much jargon
This article is nearly incomprehensible to its target audience. It is overly reliant on arcane terminology, and fails to give concrete examples to illustrate key concepts. I would like to suggest the following changes by someone competent in the field:


 * 1) Provide a worked example, similar to what you would see in a text book such as Options, Futures and Other Derivatives.
 * 2) The statement regarding approximation of a volatility swap is ambiguous. Avoid symbols such as VegaNotional in an equation. Illustrate the concept being described with an example.
 * 3) The description of pricing of the variance swap using European calls and puts is nearly worthless. How many calls and puts are needed? What does it mean that the weights are inversely proportional to the square of the strike. Again, a concrete, worked example would be very useful here.
 * 4) Who uses these things? Where are they traded? How has the market for them developed? Can I go to Bloomberg screen and pull up a market quote on one of these things?

I think this can be a very useful article, but it's missing key details. Ronnotel 13:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

This is what we should aim for. Finnancier 08:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Take a look at the same article on the WilmottWiki: http://www.wilmottwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Variance_swap

Key variables not explained in addition to too much jargon
I don't know anything about his topic, that is why I wanted to learn in the fist place. I did not learn anything and I got angry at the mention of the term "any twice continuously differentiable contract". I thought trading was a discrete event, how could anything be "twice continuously differentiable" in trading? AverageTurkishJoe (talk) 14:02, 8 June 2010 (UTC)