Volatility Trading Strategies

Trading the various volatility products such as XIV and VXX is becoming more and more popular with each passing year.  Not a day goes by...

Volatility products are very complicated instruments. They don’t derive their price based on traditional supply and demand dynamics, but...

Far too often I see traders fall into the trap of measuring their trades entirely based on results.  Many traders would say things like:...

While there were several moments when things were looking ugly within the broad markets, the signals weren’t quite strong enough to be in...

Anybody who has spent any time researching trading strategies for the XIV will have no doubt encountered an endless stream of charts that...

What I’ve been talking about for over a year now has finally happened.  The long overdue correction in the stock market finally came and...

For the better part of 20 years now traditional asset class investing has produced less than stellar returns which led to the...

It was a very active quarter in both number of trades and percentage allocation, but sometimes that’s necessary to avoid the disasters...

It goes without saying that everybody likes to have profitable trading months, but for me what’s even more satisfying is not losing...

The markets are finally without their training wheels as we’ve seen the completion of the FED’s quantitative easing program  (at least...

As far as the actual number of trades we took the quarter was pretty normal.  However, the percent of days we were in trades was very low...

Although we had another great quarter of trading, to be honest the trade signals were so consistently positive and easy to interpret that...

Stocks got off to a rough start in 2014 following that monster year in 2013, being down over 3% in January.  As we’ve seen time and again...

It seems the bull market still has some legs as it was a very strong year for stocks and naturally that is also a nice tailwind for the...

* I’ll update the charts and commentary in these very old articles every now and then so that the data is stretched over longer periods...

* I’ll update the charts and commentary in these very old articles every now and then so that the data is stretched over longer periods...

* I’ll update the charts and commentary in these very old articles every now and then so that the data is stretched over longer periods...

* I’ll update the charts and commentary in these very old articles every now and then so that the data is stretched over longer periods...

* I’ll update the charts and commentary in these very old articles every now and then so that the data is stretched over longer periods...

Stocks are having a great year through nine months of 2013 which has given the XIV a nice boost and our system here at Volatility Trading...

Pretty flat this quarter, but it was mainly due to a single day loss over 10% there in April.  As I’ve talked about before, there isn’t...

Regardless of the many differences between all the tradable funds within the financial industry, they all have one thing in common.  They...

I don’t think a day has gone by since early 2011 that I didn’t check the VIX futures term structure and add those values to my various...

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