The primary use of futures is hedging risk. Traders in the spot market can hedge certain risks through the futures market. With the development of the futures market, the arbitrage transactions around futures have attracted increasingly attention. The aim of this paper is to establish an...

A new valuation and calibration method for VIX futures and VIX options is proposed. The method is based on a closed-form Hermite series expansion for a stochastic volatility model with the stochastic variance process driven by an affine drift term. We implement the methodology for the Heston and...