Rates vol learning material?

Hi all, I’m wondering what you guys would recommend as good learning material for rates vol trading on the sell side (buy side specific stuff is probably helpful too tho). We do cash bonds, bond futures, sofr futures, sofr swaps, etc. and of course vol on top of all of those as underlying, as well as some exotic stuff but less so (mainly vanilla swaptions and bond/sofr future options). I’ve read the natenberg options book as well as baird option market making. I’d say my grasp of options is a solid foundation, now just looking to apply it more to the rates underlying. Any recommendations are helpful! Thanks guys!

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By far the best guide I've personally found is BofA's rates vol primer. I've got a PDF I can PM to you (or otherwise probably isn't too hard to dig it out...)

 
 

theres also some really good threads on quant finance stack exchange - anything from dm63, Attack68, AKdemy is required reading

wish you the best for your career bro

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