Volatility Trading Strategies

In this video I break down what the Cash VIX Term Structure is, and how it can potentially be used to time the stock market, both good periods and market cra...

Market crashes can be very scary, but they can also prove to be great buying opportunities for those who identify when the selling pressure may be dying down...

I'm always warning traders of the dangers of shorting volatility by directly taking short positions in the long volatility ETPs such as VXX, UVXY, and TVIX. ...

Volatility has spiked to the highest level since the 08' financial crisis. There may be a few brave people out there looking to time a recovery in the marke...

VTS Community, Everybody who dips a toe in the volatility pool eventually has dreams of hitting that perfect buy on something like VXX just when the market i...

We have a very large VTS community  (members from 57 countries now)  and everyone is going to have their own "ideal" trade frequency. -  Some may look at the...

This latest stock market crash has yet again brought one fundamental truism of investing into the light. It's something that really should go without saying...

In the investing world, beta is generally referring to an individual security's return in relation to the movement of the underlying benchmark. Now on a tec...

I hope everyone had a great holiday long weekend and are ready to get back into it. As promised I'm going to go over a new addition to the VTS Volatility Da...

VTS Community, We jumped into a new Long VXX Put option trade (stock replacement through options) in the Tactical Volatility strategy yesterday and I had a g...

On January 30th, 2009 the volatility landscape changed forever with the introduction of the world's first volatility exchange traded product, the VXX. Since...

The VTS Tactical Volatility strategy moved to cash two days ago after a very good run in the most recent series of trades.  All totalled the strategy is up 3...

Every month this year I'm going to do a different 30-day challenge. Personal finance, Career, Health, Relationships, there's a little of everything here. F...

Now that we're into 2020, Volatility Trading Strategies has officially been going for 8 years now and I thought I'd give a little VTS timeline for those who ...

I've said many, many times (like broken record amount of times) that I don't believe anybody should ever short volatility ETPs directly under any circumsta...

VTS Volatility Dashboard #16 - VTS Extreme Put/Call Ratio What is a Put/Call ratio? In general put/call ratios are used to gauge the sentiment in the marke...

All volatility traders know about the unfortunate demise of the old XIV, so this news of a potential new -1x inverse volatility ETP is interesting to say the...

Shorting Volatility has become quite mainstream in the last few years, but the thing is, not all short volatility strategies are the same. Some are great wi...

There are many ways to trade the various volatility ETPs on the market, some of which can be quite profitable and reasonably safe. However there is one thin...

In this final part 3 of the portfolio rebalancing series, I'll go over how I regularly rebalance my own portfolio which is more active trading. Want to join ...