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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…
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…
JT McGee: Exchange-traded fund investors use ETFs for any number of reasons. Many use them for their simplicity, others know that low ETF fees bring about higher, long-run returns. What many investors seem to forget, however, are the unique risks that come with underlying portfolios that make up any 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…
Bill Luby: It does not seem to long ago that I was the only person who though VXX was worth mentioning. 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…
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…
David Gillie: In the world of market volatility, what goes down, must come up. And the most likely time for that to happen is when the bulls and bears are sleepily resting on their laurels. Or, as it’s called on the Volatility Index (.VIX), “Complacency”. In the past, the average investor had no way to get Read more…
John Townsend: I’d like to introduce you to an acquaintance of mine. I call him the Dinosaur of Sentiment, the Sentimental Dinosaur and just plain T-Rex for short. His real name, however, sounds Read more…
Michael Johnston: Between the beginning of the second half of 2011 and the middle of December, few exchange-traded products endured a tougher stretch than the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN (XIV); the exchange-traded note plummeted last summer as the “fear index” spiked Read more…
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