Library term·Macro & fundamentals
VIX Futures Term Structure — Reading Contango, Backwardation & Event Premium
Roll yields, convexity quirks of vol-of-vol proxies & why naive carry strategies blow up clustered events.
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Onur Erkan YıldızFounder, Financial Engineer · CMB-licensed
Higher education in Financial Engineering and Money & Capital Markets. SPK (Turkey CMB) licence. 16 years across institutional markets, research, and quant-driven analytics.
Carry geometry
Persistent contango historically implied negative roll drift naive short-vol ETFs encode path fragility clustered convex events.Backwardation fear premium acute spot shock windows—structure flips—not static personality.
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