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Bill Luby: The sudden surge of interest in VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN (NYSEArca:TVIX) made it the most heavily traded VIX exchange-traded product (ETP) on Friday, Read more…
Bill Luby: With just a few minutes before the close, it is now almost certain that VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN (NYSEArca:TVIX) is going to dethrone iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Read more…
Rick Pendergraft: Over the past four or five months, the volume on the New York Stock Exchange has been pathetic. I’ve heard numerous analysts complain about the low-volume environment and I must Read more…
Bill Luby: This morning was one of those mornings where stocks were up, the VIX was up and some of the VIX futures were up even more than the cash VIX – at least before the latest round of news from Greece hit. Read more…
Bill Luby: As action in the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX ST ETN (NYSEArca:TVIX) heats up again today (up 15% on 21 million shares traded), I gave some thought to who might be trading what I called in this space over a year ago “day trading rocket fuel.” Read more…
Bill Luby: Options volume in iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSEArca:VXX) surged to their second highest level ever on Friday, with 344,777 contracts trading and put volume (56%) outpacing call volume (44%) by an unusually high margin. Read more…
Bill Luby: For those who missed today’s market action and just looked at the post-mortem reports, today probably looked like just another in a series of uneventful days. For those who were paying Read more…
Andy Crowder: Many professional options traders don’t really care about options prices or volume. They only care about volatility. That’s because volatility is the single biggest factor for any given options contract. Read more…
David Gillie: The Volatility Index (VIX) is a measure of options activity on the S&P 500—frequently referred to as the “fear index” Read more…
Bill Luby: Three years after their launch, iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSEArca:VXX) has about four times as many assets as its mid-term sibling, iPath S&P 500 VIX Read more…
[The following first appeared in the December 2010 edition of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal. I thought I would share it partly because I have an article, “Synthetic Seasonal VIX-VXX Arb,” which appears in the just published January 2012 issue of Expiring Monthly that Read more…
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that it will begin offering trading in options on the CBOE Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index (VXEEM) on Tuesday, January 31. Read more…
Bill Luby: The more I think about it, the less I understand the need for even more low volatility ETPs. Sure, I understand that in high volatility markets many investors want a more conservative portfolio Read more…
Kevin McElroy: Does the market feel calm to you? Probably. The fastest way to measure “fear” in the market is to look at the Volatility Index – usually abbreviated VIX. Read more…
CNBC is at the Fifth annual Index Universe “Inside ETFs conference” in Hollywood Florida. Below are some of the interviews from that conference, Monday January 
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