Buy low, sell high. The trend is your friend. Sell in May and go away. Wall Street is teeming with familiar financial adages. But there’s one you may not have heard of: “When the VIX is high, it’s ...

A comprehensive guide for trading options on the VIX, a key metric reflecting market volatility expectations for the S&P 500 over the next 30 days. It covers the unique aspects of VIX options, ...

Shorting a proxy of the VIX Index using SVXY can yield over 20% annualized returns since 2019 by utilizing mean reversion. Strategy 1 involves incremental capital allocation at VIX levels of 20, 30, ...

SVOL typically shorts between 20% and 30% of its portfolio across the VIX futures term structure, greatly limiting downside risk compared to other products with more exposure. SVOL allocates 2% to 4% ...

Market uncertainty has been a prevalent theme of 2025, keeping volatility front and center within capital markets. Thus far, the defining volatility moment for the year occurred in April 2025, when ...

In this article, we delve into the concept of volatility and explore intriguing opportunities to use it to our advantage. Generally, volatility refers to the magnitude of price fluctuations relative ...

Stocks are volatile. That much is understood by most investors, but what exactly is volatility and how is it measured for the overall stock market? You may have seen references to something called the ...

Buy low, sell high. The trend is your friend. Sell in May and go away. Wall Street is teeming with familiar financial adages. But there’s one you may not have heard of: “When the VIX is high, it’s ...

The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), commonly known as the fear index, measures the market's expectation of short-term volatility ...