Four sharp viewer questions on Confirm and Send, and the standout is the one every platform user wonders: IV rank and IV percentile sit right next to each other, so when do they disagree and which do you trade off? Tom Preston defines them cleanly, IV rank is a range statistic (where current vol sits between the 52 week high and low), while IV percentile is a frequency statistic (how many days in the past year had lower vol than today).
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Chapters
00:00 Is index premium too cheap
00:18 Dispersion under the surface
01:30 Why the VIX is always cheaper
02:15 When not to sell index premium
04:00 IV rank vs IV percentile
04:34 How each one is calculated
06:00 Range stat vs frequency stat
06:40 One spike can skew IV rank
08:00 Is picking strikes by delta...