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Scott Nations teaches you how to read the signals that professional options traders have used for years — in plain English, with real examples.
Volatility Indexes:
What They Are and How to Use Them
The definitive course on understanding VolDex®, TailDex®, RiskDex®, and the full Nations index family — and how to incorporate them into your trading and investing decisions.
A ground-up introduction to implied volatility — what it is, how it's measured, and why it matters more than price action alone.
Start Course →A deep dive into TailDex® — how it's built, why it leads market dislocations, and how to act on its signals before the crowd catches on.
Start Course →Learn to interpret the put/call demand ratio and use RiskDex® as a contrarian and trend-confirmation tool across multiple asset classes.
Start Course →The advanced course. Build a rules-based system that combines all five Nations indexes to generate systematic buy, sell, and hedge signals.
Enroll — Pro Required →Bitcoin volatility, fixed income vol, and sector-level VolDex® are in production.
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Scott Nations is the President of Nations Indexes and a 30-year veteran of the options markets. A former CBOE floor trader, he has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and the WSJ, and is the author of three books on options. He created the Nations index family to give independent traders access to the same volatility intelligence that institutional desks have used for decades.
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