Volatility Trading Strategies

Emerging markets (EEM) have been crushed for over a 20% loss since the highs in January. For options traders this presents an...

For many people, buying a home or renting and investing instead is one of the biggest decisions of their investing lives. After all, we...

Introducing my vol step strategy. This exciting options trading strategy involving shorting UVXY the smart way has been a nice profit...

The Tactical Balanced Strategy is our "core" portfolio position with a 50% allocation. It rotates between positions in stocks bonds and...

Is the stock market about to crash? Should we sell everything right now? The national debt is skyrocketing. The yield curve is nearly...

Tactical Volatility Strategy: In recent years professional traders have turned to exciting new exchange traded products such as XIV and...

In this part 2 of the stock replacement strategy we will dive into an example of how to simulate a short volatility position using the...

The stock replacement strategy involves buying in the money options to simulate a position in the underlying without actually holding the...

This is one of the most polarizing subjects in the investment world. Does technical analysis actually work? You'll hear many opinions...

Going over one of my favorite and most common options trading strategies there is, the Bear Call Spread.

2018 has finally seen some market volatility. Let's check in on our core Tactical Balanced strategy to see how it navigates more...

Recently I put out my 2nd Questionnaire asking the VTS community a few questions. You can view the original article at the following...

Now that our VTS Discretionary Strategy has launched I thought I'd do a quick video showing people how to use a basic stock screener. ...

The VTS Discretionary Strategy is a freestyle allocation that will be made up of several of my go-to trades. Today I'm introducing the...

I'm very excited to introduce a brand new strategy for 2018 here at Volatility Trading Strategies. It's a strategy inspired by you, the...

It's a sad day for all of us volatility investors as the flagship volatility ETP has terminated. It's just a bump in the road but it's a...

Anybody who's followed the daily performance of these volatility ETPs will very quickly realize they do occasionally suffer significant...

As this 2nd longest bull market in history pushes on, more and more investors are wondering how to invest in this overvalued market. In...

Will our next position in the VTS Tactical Volatility Strategy more likely be in the XIV, or the VXX? To fully answer this one, let's...

As a follow up to Part 1, here in Part 2 we will review the previous trades, talk about why they didn't work out, and discuss a better...