Time is Right to Buy Options on Cdn Banks

But conditions this year provide a classic case study on when not to write options against your portfolioInvestment Executive, Richard Croft, 4 January 2006Option premiums remain at or near 10-year lows, at least if we use as our proxy the Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index (VIX) or the Montreal Exchange implied volatility index. The former measures implied volatility using options