Scott Nations

Scott Nations is the president of Nations Indexes and a bestselling author.  Scott is also a contributor to CNBC and regularly appears on-air to discuss markets, current economic events, and the outlook for a variety of financial vehicles.

Nations Indexes is the world’s leading independent developer of volatility and option enhanced indexes and investment vehicles. The Nations Strategy Indexes, including the Nations NDX PutWrite Index, combine index investing and systematic option strategies to generate superior absolute and/or risk-adjusted return over full market cycles.  The Nations Better Beta® Indexes are the first indexes which magnify gains without magnifying losses.

Scott is also the developer of the Nations suite of volatility indexes including VolDex® (ticker symbol VOLI) and TailDex® (ticker symbol TDEX), the first measure of the market’s expectations for a “tail event” or steep drop in prices.

Scott is the author of ‘A History of the United States in Five Crashes’, a general interest history of the five modern stock market crashes (1907, 1929, 1987, 2008 and the Flash of 2010) which was published by HarperCollins in June 2017. Scott is the author of Options Math for Traders, published by Wiley & Sons in 2012 which was an Amazon.com bestseller. He is also the author of The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations, published by Wiley & Sons in October 2014.

Scott was previously a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and was a market maker and floor manager for a leading index option trading firm where he was responsible for the development and implementation of proprietary option pricing models.