Whats The Plan/Trade/Thought
I purposely ended my March trades last week because I felt this week would be super volatile given the Fed announcements on interest rates. This play turned out well as I got to write VXX calls that end 1 Apr at an amazing price
On the 15 March, I noticed that the VXX had stopped correlating with the market and I believe this...
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-One of the market's most popular instruments, $VXX, recently underwent an anomaly of an event that hasn't occurred in over 10 years in the volatility-trading space. On March 14, 2022, Barclays announced a suspension of share sales and issuances on the iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX...
One of the big market events today is the explosion in price of AMEX:VXX which according to the issuer Barclays has nothing to do with Ukraine or market events. I think it is tangentially related in some way to the market conditions but what does this actually mean for the near future of volatility? I look at TVC:VIX as a measure of the "fear index" of the...
Nothing has changed in this cycle...except that drawdowns have been very steep in individual names. Doesn't mean we will see bearishness in months to come...there will be big rallies...enough to strangle shorts and dump to kill longs.
Best idea is to trade lighter and not to be greedy.
The pricing of the VIX futures tracking ETN VXX no longer reflects reality.
Barclays has halted new issuance of both the VXX and OIL ETNs.
Existing shares of VXX are being bid up far beyond the movement in the underlying futures market.
As I mentioned in a previous post, (linked below), I believe the VIX is setting up for a breakout to the upside.
I...
Whats The Plan/Trade/Thought
I entered this position as I believe that we are currently in a sideways bearish situation. The markets took huge dips since late Nov to Jan and while it has recovered some of that loss. The S&P and especially the NASDAQ show that at least for now, the constant bold bullish days are narrowing
Even though I am taking a sideways...
Same highs, higher lows, stock maybe boom. Won't let me publish unless I say more, uhh, it's broken the huge resistence line that acted like a brick wall for the past 2 years.
Started with monthly VXX Strangle 2 strikes wide. As volatility kicked in, sold off the profitable trade (a put) and then used the rest of the time to allow the bearish sentiment to kick in. the problem was a lot of times the option would be reach ITM (In-The-Money), but I would hedge by tightening up the strangle by adding another put once the direction changed....
It's 1120am MST on 2/28, and I am expecting a further market decline. I already have a VXX call option in play right now and am expecting this position will end up in the money.
It seems Russia/Ukraine war is starting to heat up despite the meeting between the two countries today.
From a technical analysis perspective, there is another inverse head and...
Whats The Plan/Trade/Thought
Market seems to be ranging with deeper drops. This VXX trade is positioned as a hedge as it takes a bullish market stance. I like this structure of having a broad market hedge and especially a position that expires early in the month. As I would still have a solid feel of the previous month’s sentiment.
VXX seems like a good...
Up against the trendline resistance that has acted like a wall going back to March 2021.
Break on either side should mark a key direction change in the market.
If it can't move above 24.31 soon, growth stocks and indices will rally (atleast for a short time)
Takeaway: look for bearish signal on 4H before flipping side. Trend break shou ld present great...
In my opinion, buying a VXX weekly call option is an amazing way to hedge your crypto portfolio against the market volatility resulting from geopolitical and macroeconomic concerns.
Unless you live under a rock, you've reeceived incessant push notifications regarding the Russia/Ukraine geopolitical conflict and the inflation-driven macroeconomic concerns....
-VXX is dropping in the short-term window, this week SPY might have some bullish movement on it.
-As we get closer to next month, probably we will see some more blood, so VXX definitely has only 1 week to drop.
This is for going long UVXY or VXX.
I am fine-tuning on systematic approach to trading long volatility. I have back tested the rules below with great results! Please comment and share your thoughts. I traded this several times recently and have done well with it. It is fade-it or half-life approach; decaying position or reverse pyramid, since the underlying...
