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Variance swap

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A variance swap is a financial derivative instrument whose price is a function of the variance of the price of the underlyer.

As variance is the square of the standard deviation (which is closely related to the volatility), variance swaps are even more sensible than vanilla options to the changes in the underlying price.

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