ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott Nations is best known as one of the cast of CNBC’s Options Action and from his regular appearances on CNBC’s Fast Money, Futures Now, and Squawk Box programs, but he was an option trader in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange for over two decades.
Today, Scott is the chief investment officer of NationsShares, the world’s leading independent developer of volatility-based and option-enhanced indexes. As the head of NationsShares, Scott has created VolDex® (ticker symbol: VOLI), an improved measure of option implied volatility; SkewDex® (ticker symbol: SDEX), the best measure of option skew; TailDex® (ticker symbol: TDEX), the first measure of the risk of a “black swan” event in the stock market; and TermDex®, the first quantitative measure of the term structure of option markets. Scott is also the creator of the Enhanced Covered Call, Enhanced Collar, and Better Beta® Option Levered strategies.
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