Volatility Trading Strategies

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

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Sometimes some of the best lessons we learn, come from the biggest mistakes we make. In this video I'll share my worst trading loss...

VTS Community, Understanding the difference between the straight average of the VIX, and what the true level it's trying to find is, can...

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, Watch here as I go step by step, how we use the VTS Options emails to execute our trades. It can be as simple as 1...

VTS Community, So often I hear people say that Short Call Verticals are the higher probability "Short Vol" trade, and Long Put Verticals...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...