Election-induced volatility may be peaking, making the SVIX ETF a buy as volatility is expected to decline post-election, benefiting from a return to contango. The SVIX ETF is designed to avoid past ...

SVXY's methodology profits from contango and the VIX futures market has switched back into contango. Volatility is highly mean-reverting and at present we are in a period of mean reversion from prior ...

UBS jettisoned 12 hyper-specific VIX products on Monday. Why? VIX ETFs and ETNs have roughly $3.3 billion in assets all told. So clearly there’s some interest in the space. VIX products are often used ...

There has been a lot of talk recently about whether the VIX is the tail wagging the dog, and I thought I would chime in on the subject. The CBOE Volatility Index has clearly seen a lot of strange ...

Activity in the index options market suggests the anxiety surrounding the recent market swoon has dissipated significantly. The CBOE VIX index, an option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 volatility ...

Aiming to track the front-month VIX futures contracts, ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (BATS: VIXY) offers direct exposure to short-term volatility. VIXY acts as a hedge against stock market ...