Volatility Trading Strategies

VTS Community, I've added a new graphic to the Volatility Dashboard section above that will be updated daily going forward. It's not...

Question from a VTS Community member: "I thought the Leveraged Total Portfolio was supposed to be double the performance of the standard...

Do you know how important it is to save money and make regular additions to your retirement account? I'm not being condescending here, I...

Steven asks: "How often do all of your strategies hold stocks at the same time?" To answer this question, let me also lump any short...

I've had a few interesting comments from people lately regarding what they felt was a potential pattern in the VTS Volatility Barometer. ...

I've had a lot of questions recently asking what's up with volatility and why it is remaining so high. Considering 20% of our portfolio...

I don't know how many of you will remember, but one year ago at the beginning of 2020 I put out a video talking about 12 monthly...

Hopefully everyone had a fantastic Christmas! One more party and overindulgence of food later this week for New Years, and then we're...

VTS Community, It's been a rough 2020 all around the world and we're not quite out of it just yet. Cases of Covid are still very high in...

VTS Community, Something that can be pretty frustrating for traders is when you're watching your "stocks" position in whatever you are...

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! As a Canadian I don't really celebrate, but I'm definitely jealous when I look at everyone's...

I want to state from the outset here, this is going to seem incredibly self serving today.  I'm essentially going to be cheerleading my...

I think everybody understands that prices move around intraday and there can be differences from when the email goes out compared to the...

The Tactical Volatility strategy launched in January 2012, and used the old ETF called XIV for all short volatility positions all the way...

VTS Q&A question #66:  Can I use QQQ instead of the other stock market ETFs you choose? Check out the VTS Q&A section here. We currently...

VTS Community, I'd like to address a topic that seems to be coming up a lot lately.  Given the proximity to the US election and how...

VTS Community, There was a lot of great feedback from yesterdays blog so we'll keep it going with a follow up while it's still fresh in...

As I mention a lot, the key to building long term wealth is pretty simple.  Now I am choosing that word "simple" carefully because it...

Continuing on with the theme for the week, which is all about the VB Threshold strategy and its leveraged alternative, I want to discuss...

I have updated the General Volatility metrics data table to be the same as the Specialty Volatility metrics table above it. Just keeping...