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Reading List, Intermediate. The free desk handbook on term structure and skew. Read it before module 8.

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Juri von Randow
Oct 31, 2026
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Cartoon: a student lifts a tall stack of printed pages from an office printer while the mentor holds a red ring binder, titled Bennett, Free Handbook.

Colin Bennett ran equity derivatives research at a large bank and wrote the handbook his clients kept asking for. Then he put it online for free. It is the clearest thing in print on term structure and skew, the two things a calendar trader needs to understand. The printed copy is on Amazon if you want it on the desk.

Who it is for: Trading Volatility by Colin Bennett, 2014, free PDF from the author. Level Intermediate, After Natenberg. It assumes you know what vega is.. Time to read About 12 hours, For the four chapters we use. The whole book is twice that.. Math: Algebra, Charts and rules of thumb in the chapters, the proofs in the appendix.. Best for Calendars and skew, You want to understand term structure before you trade the Time Machine..

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Below the line, for Pro and Elite Trader members: the chapters we use, the five ideas I took from it, the chapters to skip, and the module it prepares. Elite Traders read the book, then work that module with me one-on-one, on their own positions.

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