What the f*** are you talking man that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard volatility clustering is a well-known phenomenon have volatility leads to more volatility in long lulls can extend for arbitrary periods of time before they blow up this is volatility clustering in the thing that stochastic models capture nothing to do with a Bollinger band which is another low pass filter applied by idiots who don't know what you're doing. Might as well use the I ching to trainAs Bollinger states times of high volatility is followed by times of low volatility. If this is true then the pricing model should factor this inevitable drop in volatility (price) during times of high volatility. The options can still increase in price, but should increase relatively less as volatility increases. On the flip side, options prices should increase relatively more in price as volatility drops.
The skew basically will have IV decrease as price goes from otm to itm...so options prices actually do get relatively cheaper as implied volatility drops off after the expected move is reached...so essentially as price goes up, volatility increases...but as price moves closer itm, volatility decreases so options get cheaper mimicking as if an expected drop of price is imminent. I see how it works now, and why there is a skew.
