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Bill Luby: It was two years ago today that VelocityShares launched their six VIX-based exchange-traded products and I’m fairly certain I was the only one who was covering that event on the day of the launch: Impressive Launch for Sextet of New Volatility ETNs from VelocityShares. Read more…
Eric Dutram: Although stocks have been weak as of late, broad market investing has still been quite profitable from a year-to-date look. In fact, even with the recent slump, the S&P 500 is still up double digits so far this year, marking a huge turnaround from last year’s flat performance. Read more…
Jared Cummans: As the ETF industry has rapidly expanded, so too have the options investors have for slicing and dicing markets. One of the most popular innovations in recent years has been the ability to access volatility through the exchange-traded structure; there are now multiple ETPs for gaining exposure Read more…
Bill Luby: The VIX closed at 15.59 today, just 0.03 points lower than the close of 15.62 on April 26, 2011, some eleven months ago. From a long-term perspective, not much has happened with the VIX, but for those who have ridden the volatility roller coaster up and down, the present time seems like an Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: The unfriendly economic landscape from 2011 has been gradually evolving into a much more optimistic environment in the new year as confidence has improved across the board. Read more…
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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…
Michael Johnston: Trading in the iPath Inverse January 2021 S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE:IVO) was suspended on Monday after the note’s indicative value hit the automatic termination level of $10.00 per share. IVO, which offers inverse exposure to an index comprised of Read more…
Shah Gilani: In the early ‘80s, when I was running a hedge fund from the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE), I was a market maker in OEX options. The OEX is the Standard & Poor’s 100 Index. The CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) was born from trading options on the OEX and Read more…
One of the more innovative and popular recent additions to the fast growing ETP lineup is the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN (NYSE:XIV), an exchange-traded note that offers daily inverse exposure to an index comprised of short-term VIX futures contracts. XIV has become Read more…
As the lineup of ETFs approaches the 1,300 mark, a growing pool of issuers continue to deliver innovative new products that tap into strategies and asset classes that have never before been accessible through the exchange-traded structure. One relatively new area that has attracted Read more…
Bill Luby: Yesterday marked six months since the launch of the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN (NYSE:XIV). Read more…
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