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frolloos
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### volatility

Setting: Black-Scholes with deterministic volatility.

Vanilla options are priced with volatility equal to remaining variance/volatility $\int_t^T \sigma^2(u) du$.

What kind of option, that is delta-hedgeable, has as input at current time $t$ not the remaining variance, but the total variance $\int_0^T \sigma^2(u) du$ from $u=0$ to $u = T$?

Is it a timer option that I should be looking at?

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### Re: volatility

Ignoring the delta-hedgeable requirement, my thought was a capped variance swap, as the cap is triggered by the total variance.
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frolloos
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### Re: volatility

Thanks - yes maybe that could work. Preferably I could somehow relate the instrument, whatever it is, to a single vanilla option (by eg choosing an appropriate strike), but I am starting to believe that may be impossible.