Volatility Trading Strategies

With a 20% allocation within the Leveraged Total Portfolio, the VTS Aggressive Vol strategy tactically rotates between positions in...

Basing trade decisions on unknown binary events would be bad enough if it was just that the outcome is unknown. However, there's another...

A lot of investors don't realize just how powerful the effect of compounding can be. In this video I'll show real numbers for the...

In this video I show the real daily trade signal emails and why we moved to safety positions during all the most recent market crashes....

I've planted my flag firmly in the Tactical Investing camp as opposed to the old buy and hold. In this part 1, I'll explain what I mean...

It's a popular belief that volatility ETP's derive their price because they are buying expensive VIX futures and selling them for cheaper...

There's many trading strategies that appear to be a good idea in theory, but in a practical application they are a disaster waiting to...

One of the most important aspects of successfully trading volatility ETPs is to actually understand how they work and the mechanism as to...

The relationship between the VIX futures and the VIX index are stretched to the extreme, which under the right conditions may mean profit...

For investors with a higher level of risk tolerance, they may want to take the already killer VTS VB Threshold strategy and add a little...

Let's talk about the new volatility ETF called MSVX, it's bias, performance, and what type of investor this thing may be suitable for....

It was a good 10 year run for old TVIX, but its day has finally come. TVIX will be delisted. Let's talk about why and what it means for...

In this video we examine the effectiveness of the strategy of waiting for the VIX index to spike up higher, and then buying Put Options...

There was a very tragic incident involving a young trader using the Robinhood investing platform, where he was shown a negative balance...

As a more conservative investor, I've always focused on giving people the smoothest investing experience possible. This has meant that...

The Tactical Balanced strategy has been in the Total Portfolio Solution since it launched in January 2012 and has demonstrated very low...

In this video we look at TVIX performance, it's leverage factor, and how it functions in an attempt to finally convince people that...

Let me explain why neither Long Volatility nor Short Volatility are effective buy & hold trades in the long run. Want to join the Awesome...

The allure of big profits causes a lot of people to leverage up their trades without fully understanding that leverage is a two way...

If you look at charts of the 3 main Long Volatility ETPs, TVIX, UVXY, and VXX have all gone from extremely high levels in the past to...