Duration is the primary measure of interest rate sensitivity — it is the percentage change in price for a 1% change in interest rates. However, practitioners also look at convexity, which is the ...

Market sentiment can be challenging to quantify, but financial analysts and traders have a powerful tool to help them gauge it: CME Group’s Volatility Index, or CVOL. This index is particularly useful ...

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CVOL is a suite of implied volatility indices measuring 30-day forward volatility across all option strike prices of key futures markets. It’s based on a simple variance methodology to measure the ...