Volatility Trading Strategies

I get a lot of people asking how to calculate VIX contango and why it sometimes makes big changes day to day. Since we saw a big change today I thought we c...

VTS Community, One of the core principles in my overarching investing philosophy is that I believe it's far more important to be conservative and reduce port...

In this video we look at TVIX performance, it's leverage factor, and how it functions in an attempt to finally convince people that there's no good reason in...

Let me explain why neither Long Volatility nor Short Volatility are effective buy & hold trades in the long run. Want to join the Awesome VTS Community? * Al...

The allure of big profits causes a lot of people to leverage up their trades without fully understanding that leverage is a two way street. It also causes l...

Due to the sheer number of questions I get regarding adding leverage to the VTS strategies, I will  (reluctantly)  add leveraged sub-pages to the website for...

If you look at charts of the 3 main Long Volatility ETPs, TVIX, UVXY, and VXX have all gone from extremely high levels in the past to just a few dollars toda...

Question: Why don't you short the S&P 500 instead of buying Gold? (VTS Tactical Balanced strategy) This question is most commonly asked with respect to our...

VTS Community, I've added several new questions to the website Q&A, but I'm also starting in on some of the more interesting ones, and I will expand on one o...

I see so many people out there expressing a desire to be a full time trader, as if it's some kind of ideal lifestyle or something. In this video I explain w...

We are facing an unprecedented slowdown in the global economy, and unfortunately many people are losing their jobs. It's tragic, it's scary, but it's also a...

VTS Community, "The best defense is a good offense" I'm sure you've heard this saying before right?  The idea that the best path to victory is just to go har...

VTS Community, The VIX index is currently as high as it was during the financial crisis in 2008, but we know at some point it will come down. Here are two s...

VTS Community: Correlation and why it's so important: Studies show the average investor only makes about a 2-3% rate of return in the long run.  That number ...

There's a lot of confusion recently about why the Long Volatility ETP called TVIX is down, given that the S&P 500 is also crashing. Shouldn't TVIX be up whe...

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...