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Scott Nations is of President Nations Indexes, the leading independent developer of domestic and international option-enhanced investment products meant for mainstream investors as well as bespoke volatility index products for institutional investors. Nations suite of volatility indexes help investors fully understand what option markets have to say. VolDex (ticker: VOLI) measures implied volatility as most professionals do, TailDex (TDEX) is a unique measure of the cost of crash protection, CallDex measures the normalized cost of call options and PutDex does the same for put options. By deconstructing skew in this way, Nations volatility indexes provide invaluable insight.Nations Indexes Enhanced Covered Call and Enhanced Collar Indexes take maximum advantage of volatility premium and minimize the effects of option price erosion through the use of option skew and term structure resulting in investment vehicles superior to the covered call and collar benchmarks. Scott appears on CNBC, the leader in business TV, as an on-air contributor. Scott is also the author of several books including his most recent, the best selling "A History of the United States in Five Crashes" which is a general-interest history of the five modern stock market crashes. Amazon has named it an 'Editor's Pick' in history.Scott is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. He lives in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago with his wife Wendi.Specialties: Proprietary index option trading, creation of option-based and option-enhanced investment vehicles.

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