boring stoxx50 futures

Why it's volatility is so low?

 

stoxx 50 from Eurex?

I stopped trading stoxx 50 years ago.
We can't do anyhing because there is no major excitement / event / news from Germany.
DAX is slightly better but its day range is rather small.

since you are trading eurex product, you can try things like BTP, Bund.

 

Yes. But I remember it used to be quite volatile and many people liked to trade it. Do you know why it becomes so boring?

 

low implied vol in options means more hedging of the underlying leads to low realised vol

 

It's like the ES in America.

Many/most traders have the notion right now that "the Fed has the market's back" and won't allow it to decline (if it can help it, of course). So, very little selling => boring, low volatility.

 

Just quadruple your size. Suddenly it's not so boring anymore.

 

Like ES but with 4x the tick and hence bid/ask spread. Good for the makers, bad for the takers..