Ultra VIX Short-Term Fut ETF Proshares (UVXY) 15.05 $UVXY
Complacency Reigns Supreme - Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, Right?
Charles Hugh Smith - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Mar 29, 7:35AM CDT
One of the more remarkable features of the Bull market in stocks is the ascendancy of complacency and the banishing of fear. Take a look at this chart of the "fear index," the VIX - more properly, a measure of volatility: The VIX...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
Make 70% A Year With Math Part 3
Harry Long - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 25, 4:01PM CDT
SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), TMV: 26.70 (-0.17)
Markets Look To Capture All-Time Highs But Dillard's Poised For A Pullback
Seth Golden - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Mar 21, 11:30PM CDT
DDS: 136.51 (-0.56), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
How Does UVXY Work?
Vance Harwood - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:41AM CDT
Exchange Trade Fund ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures (NYSEARCA: UVXY ) and its Exchange Traded Note cousin VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term (NASDAQ: TVIX ) are 2X leveraged funds that track short-term volatility. To have a good...
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
Long VIX ETPs seeing lots of action ahead of FOMC
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 12:33PM CDT
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
March Madness - Dividend Grandness And Volatility Blandness
Wade Slome, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 12:37AM CDT
March Madness has arrived once again. This NCAA basketball event, which has been around since 1939, begins with a selection committee choosing the top 68 teams in the country. These teams are matched up against each other through a single-elimination...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), QQQ: 105.60 (-1.13), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), DIA: 177.58 (-1.81), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
VXX - Our Short Captured 15% In 1 Month, But Volatility Is Back
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 7:28PM CDT
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
UVXY: Large Inflows Detected at ETF
ETFChannel.com - Thu Mar 05, 10:42AM CST
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF where we have detected an approximate $118.6 million dollar inflow -- that's...
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
What To Do With Quiet Markets?
Adam Grimes - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 1:47PM CST
Just a high level perspective on what we have going on in a few major markets this week. In general, most markets are in some kind of volatility compression . Volatility compression is a term that basically means current volatility conditions are...
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), QQQ: 105.60 (-1.13), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), DIA: 177.58 (-1.81), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
It Might Be Time To Buy Volatility
Orange Peel Investments - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 02, 4:36PM CST
VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), GLD: 113.66 (-0.09), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
Equity Volatility - Going Higher
Macronomics - Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 02, 9:12AM CST
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie, American writer Please find below a great guest post from our good friends at Rcube Global Asset Management ...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), EEM: 40.13 (-0.09), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
Why I Am Hedging My Portfolio With UVXY
Dan Carman - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 23, 8:05PM CST
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
The VIX: What It Is, What It Isn't, What To Do About It Now
Peter F. Way, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 23, 4:17PM CST
VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
U.S. Equity Volatility Is 'Back To Average'
ValueWalk - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 3:30AM CST
By Michael Ide Morgan Stanley says that it's understandable that volatility us up for most asset classes, but sees room for US equity volatility to fall again. Volatility is up across the board, in some cases from historic lows to recent highs,...
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
Short-Term VIX Futures Products Should Be Avoided Until Better Opportunities Arise
Nathan Buehler - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 2:03PM CST
VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70)
iPath S&P 500 VIX - Why I'm Selling The VIX Here
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 1:13PM CST
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), MTUM: 70.30 (-0.81), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), OIL: 10.05 (-0.22), NBG: 1.28 (-0.01), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
The Year In VIX And Volatility - 2014
Bill Luby - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Jan 26, 11:05PM CST
This is the seventh year in a row I have offered a retrospective look at the year in VIX and Volatility, which is my attempt to cram some of the highlights of the year in volatility onto one graphic with a (somewhat) manageable number of annotations....
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
One Reason Why The New VIX Calculation Is Better
Vance Harwood - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 13, 5:02PM CST
The CBOE changed the way the VIX® was calculated on October 6th, 2014- asserting the change would provide a more accurate assessment of expected volatility. The new process does look better to me, but I've been surprised that the new VIX and the...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
The Current VIX Landscape Deserves Risk Assessments
Nathan Buehler - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 07, 1:08AM CST
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70)
Complacency Reigns Supreme - Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, Right?
Charles Hugh Smith - at Seeking Alpha - Sun Mar 29, 7:35AM CDT
One of the more remarkable features of the Bull market in stocks is the ascendancy of complacency and the banishing of fear. Take a look at this chart of the "fear index," the VIX - more properly, a measure of volatility: The VIX...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
Make 70% A Year With Math Part 3
Harry Long - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 25, 4:01PM CDT
SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), TMV: 26.70 (-0.17)
Markets Look To Capture All-Time Highs But Dillard's Poised For A Pullback
Seth Golden - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Mar 21, 11:30PM CDT
DDS: 136.51 (-0.56), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
How Does UVXY Work?
Vance Harwood - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:41AM CDT
Exchange Trade Fund ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures (NYSEARCA: UVXY ) and its Exchange Traded Note cousin VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term (NASDAQ: TVIX ) are 2X leveraged funds that track short-term volatility. To have a good...
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
Long VIX ETPs seeing lots of action ahead of FOMC
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 12:33PM CDT
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
March Madness - Dividend Grandness And Volatility Blandness
Wade Slome, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 12:37AM CDT
March Madness has arrived once again. This NCAA basketball event, which has been around since 1939, begins with a selection committee choosing the top 68 teams in the country. These teams are matched up against each other through a single-elimination...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), QQQ: 105.60 (-1.13), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), DIA: 177.58 (-1.81), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
VXX - Our Short Captured 15% In 1 Month, But Volatility Is Back
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 7:28PM CDT
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
UVXY: Large Inflows Detected at ETF
ETFChannel.com - Thu Mar 05, 10:42AM CST
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF where we have detected an approximate $118.6 million dollar inflow -- that's...
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
What To Do With Quiet Markets?
Adam Grimes - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 04, 1:47PM CST
Just a high level perspective on what we have going on in a few major markets this week. In general, most markets are in some kind of volatility compression . Volatility compression is a term that basically means current volatility conditions are...
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), QQQ: 105.60 (-1.13), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), DIA: 177.58 (-1.81), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
It Might Be Time To Buy Volatility
Orange Peel Investments - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 02, 4:36PM CST
VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), GLD: 113.66 (-0.09), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
Equity Volatility - Going Higher
Macronomics - Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 02, 9:12AM CST
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion." - Dale Carnegie, American writer Please find below a great guest post from our good friends at Rcube Global Asset Management ...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), EEM: 40.13 (-0.09), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
Why I Am Hedging My Portfolio With UVXY
Dan Carman - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 23, 8:05PM CST
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74)
The VIX: What It Is, What It Isn't, What To Do About It Now
Peter F. Way, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 23, 4:17PM CST
VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43)
U.S. Equity Volatility Is 'Back To Average'
ValueWalk - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 11, 3:30AM CST
By Michael Ide Morgan Stanley says that it's understandable that volatility us up for most asset classes, but sees room for US equity volatility to fall again. Volatility is up across the board, in some cases from historic lows to recent highs,...
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
Short-Term VIX Futures Products Should Be Avoided Until Better Opportunities Arise
Nathan Buehler - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 2:03PM CST
VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70)
iPath S&P 500 VIX - Why I'm Selling The VIX Here
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Feb 04, 1:13PM CST
TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), MTUM: 70.30 (-0.81), SPY: 206.43 (-1.82), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), OIL: 10.05 (-0.22), NBG: 1.28 (-0.01), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
The Year In VIX And Volatility - 2014
Bill Luby - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Jan 26, 11:05PM CST
This is the seventh year in a row I have offered a retrospective look at the year in VIX and Volatility, which is my attempt to cram some of the highlights of the year in volatility onto one graphic with a (somewhat) manageable number of annotations....
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
One Reason Why The New VIX Calculation Is Better
Vance Harwood - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 13, 5:02PM CST
The CBOE changed the way the VIX® was calculated on October 6th, 2014- asserting the change would provide a more accurate assessment of expected volatility. The new process does look better to me, but I've been surprised that the new VIX and the...
TVIZ: 19.48 (+0.34), TVIX: 1.70 (+0.08), XVZ: 28.83 (+0.01), VIXM: 61.09 (+0.58), XVIX: 17.02 (+0.07), ZIV: 42.08 (-0.41), VXX: 25.63 (+0.67), IVOP: 38.01 (unch), UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), VIIX: 34.54 (+0.84), CVOL: 0.84 (+0.06), VXZ: 12.57 (+0.11), VIIZ: 17.43 (+0.30), XXV: 38.28 (unch), VIXY: 17.01 (+0.43), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70), XIV: 34.64 (-0.89)
The Current VIX Landscape Deserves Risk Assessments
Nathan Buehler - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Jan 07, 1:08AM CST
UVXY: 15.05 (+0.74), SVXY: 68.04 (-1.70)
