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...

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...

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...

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: 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

This is a sneak peak into what VTS Options delivers. Here's what subscribers see for all new trades. Plus of course, all the regular VTS content every day ...

Special blog today! I'm including the ENTIRE VTS email, not just the blog. You can check out what VTS Community subscribers see daily. The sections are: 1)...

VTS Community, The Traders VRP metric is a continuation / improvement on the Simple VRP metric I introduced previously. If you missed that Simple VRP articl...