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VTS Livestream #25) Retire a Millionaire Making 12% a Year
Want to join the Awesome VTS Community * All information, analysis, and articles on this site are provided for informational purposes...
Brent Osachoff
Nov 9, 20211 min read


VTS Livestream #24) Here's Why Selling Covered Calls Sucks!
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Brent Osachoff
Nov 5, 20211 min read


Article #631) Part 4 - Tactical Volatility strategy through the 2020 pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 27, 20215 min read


VTS Livestream #23) 2nd Longest VIX Futures Contango Streak / Short Vol Isn't Working?
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Brent Osachoff
Oct 22, 20211 min read


Article #630) Part 3 - Tactical Balanced strategy through the 2020 pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 14, 20214 min read


Article #629) Part 2 - Defensive Rotation strategy through the pandemic
VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation Part 3: ...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 12, 20214 min read


Article #628) Part 1: How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic?
VTS Community, Part 1: How did VTS strategies really do during the pandemic? In a planned 6 part series of articles over the next...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 11, 20216 min read


Article #627) Best Asset Class for Low Volatility? Why it's NOT Stocks
VTS Community, In this article from last week, we went over the performance of 13 different ETFs and asset classes that could potentially...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 8, 20215 min read


Article #626) Tactical Investing WHIPSAW! - What is it, how to reduce it?
VTS Community, All methods of investing have advantages and disadvantages so determining what style a person will adopt is just a matter...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 6, 20215 min read


Article #625) Tactical Long Volatility Allocations are Difficult, but Important
VTS Community, Appreciate all the engaging emails about yesterday's blog, and there was a lot of good feedback on what asset class would...
Brent Osachoff
Oct 1, 20216 min read


Article #624) What's the Best Asset Class for Safety when Volatility is elevated?
VTS Community, As we continue the quest to make improvements to the VB Threshold strategy that crushed it for years but has recently been...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 30, 20215 min read


Article #623) VTS Beta:SPX exposure when Aggressive, Safety, or Quasi Market Short
VTS Community, Given all the uncertainties in the market right now, Evergrande, Fed taper talk, the debt ceiling, volatility metrics are...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 22, 20214 min read


Article #622) VTS Defensive Rotation as a stand alone strategy?
VTS Community, Great question from Michael today that maybe some others in the community are wondering as well: "Do you think the...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 12, 20214 min read


Video #171) Percentiles Explained - Become a better trader - Volatility Lingo Ep.4
One of the biggest mistakes I see traders make is when they try to use absolute or nominal values as input variables for their trading...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 10, 20211 min read


VTS Livestream #22) Options Trading, UVXY, Volatility ETP questions
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Brent Osachoff
Sep 8, 20211 min read


Video #170) How to find the Average? - Mean, Median, Mode - Volatility Lingo Ep.3
- Is the average US income 62,500, 43,200, or closer to 35,000? - Is the average VIX index 19.49, 17.44, or something in the 12's? Want...
Brent Osachoff
Sep 1, 20211 min read


Article #621) Growth vs Value Correlation is alarmingly low
VTS Community, Growth vs Value correlation is at extreme lows: When trying to gauge the pulse of market participants and potential risk...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 31, 20213 min read


VTS Livestream #21) Future Retirement Crisis? What if the S&P is Flat for 20 years?
Looking at historical S&P 500 performance is fine, but what's more important is trying to determine what it will do starting today going...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 25, 20211 min read


Video #169) What is VIX Futures Backwardation? Volatility Lingo Ep.2
We've done Contango is Ep.1 so the next step is an understanding of the opposite which is called Backwardation. Can it be used to signal...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 19, 20211 min read


VTS Livestream #20) When will UVXY and VXX reverse split? Vaccine rant...
There's a lot of interesting data we need to look at in order to try to predict when the next UVXY and VXX reverse split will be, so it's...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 14, 20211 min read


Article #620) Investing Success Requires Decoupling from the S&P - Low Correlation Investing
VTS Community, Decoupling from the market is hard sometimes... I've mentioned this in a few livestreams and people are always surprised...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 13, 20216 min read


Video #168) What is VIX Futures Contango? Volatility Lingo Ep.1
The Volatility Lingo series will be extensive, but I think the best place to start is an understanding of something that is key for all...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 10, 20211 min read


VTS Livestream #19) 5th Longest VIX Futures Conango Streak Ever! When will it end?
The VIX futures are on quite a run and haven't dipped into backwardation in a LONG time. Let's talk about it. Want to join the Awesome...
Brent Osachoff
Aug 6, 20211 min read


Video #167) Rent vs Buy a Home - The difference could be Millions!
The Rent vs Buy a home decision isn't nearly as simple as many people think. I hear it said so often that renting is like flushing money...
Brent Osachoff
Jul 28, 20212 min read
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