The recent volatility in equity, bond, commodity and foreign exchange markets has severely impacted many trading and longer-term portfolio positions. Retail traders are always looking for that hard-to-find edge, especially…
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Utilizing the VIX as a Hedging Strategy
Financial uncertainty, high inflation, considerable equity selling, and recession fears characterize the current financial situation. Since the Covid-19 crisis in 2021, the VIX index, a well-known indication of market volatility,…
There’s More to Volatility Measures than Just $VIX
It seems like almost every volatility conversation revolves around $VIX. $VIX is a real time annualized estimate of the volatility or percentage price movement of the S&P 500 over the…
What is a Term Structure and What Can it Tell Us?
Analyzing the term structures for VIX, energies, interest rates, grains and other products provide significant insight into general and product specific market conditions, traders, investors and speculators’ expectations and trade…
The VIX and a Unique Way To Trade It
VIX is a real time measure of the market’s expectation of the annualized volatility of the S & P 500 over the next 30 days. It is the market’s current,…