in Russia we use stradegy which give profit as time disinteration with rolling.Nadeyust I understandable dialect.And we turn our effort to make a system oriented on trade IVO for deversification
if I understand what you mean (I'm not quite sure about that) you certainly need to read those three books.
are you sure you understand all those three books, if you do trading vega should be no huge problem whatsoever on any stock wherever in the world.
Real vega-traders don't just sell or buy stradles and strangles they also delta-hedge, to do this properly you need an optionmodel.
For what it's worth you don't need to know historical vol to trade vol, although it might help. As a mm you can for example sell high vol and buy vol in different strikes and ofset your delta's, you can trade vol in different calender months to ofset your risks. As a trader (I don't trade options much anymore) I used to sit on the bid and the ask of options on DIA (the tracker of dow jones) and hedge my delta's and go along with the flow. If I saw people were buying options I adjusted my vol in my model and adjusted my prices accordingly, if people started selling options I did the reverse. I was making prices in 20-30 strikes. I didn't have much of a view on vega, I just went with the flow.