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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: 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…
[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…
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…
John Nyaradi: 2012 will likely bring plenty of fear to global stock markets and now ETFs present opportunities to profit when fear runs high. 2012 is off to a fast start with a quick rally in global indexes and plenty of uncertainty surrounding events in the Persian Gulf and the ongoing, seemingly never Read more…
Bill Luby: The year is not quite over, but I can safely predict that it when it is in the books, there will be no doubt that 2011 has been a bull market for VIX exchange-traded products (ETPs). After seeing two VIX ETPs launched in 2009 and ten in 2010, this year has witnessed the launch of 20 VIX ETPs. Read more…
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