Red VTS Favricon Black.png

Volatility Trading Strategies

  • HOME

  • About

    • About Me
    • VTS Newsletter
    • Disclaimer
  • Portfolio

  • Q&A

  • Subscribe

  • Blog

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    • All Posts
    • Videos
    • Articles
    • Livestreams
    Search
    Article #637)  What is the Ideal "Long Volatility" Trade Frequency for Tail Risk?
    Brent Osachoff
    • Feb 24
    • 6 min

    Article #637) What is the Ideal "Long Volatility" Trade Frequency for Tail Risk?

    VTS Community, We've dedicated three blogs in the last several weeks talking about the bizarre nature of this market sell off. More...
    Article #636)  Part 2  -  5 Volatility Ranges  -  Our Beta : SPX Exposure During Each
    Brent Osachoff
    • Feb 17
    • 7 min

    Article #636) Part 2 - 5 Volatility Ranges - Our Beta : SPX Exposure During Each

    VTS Community, In Part 1 of this article yesterday (read Part 1 here if you missed it) we talked about why "Buy and Hold" investing is...
    Article #635)  Part 1  -  5 Volatility Ranges  -  Our Expected Portfolio Positions During Each
    Brent Osachoff
    • Feb 16
    • 6 min

    Article #635) Part 1 - 5 Volatility Ranges - Our Expected Portfolio Positions During Each

    VTS Community, The vast majority of the investment world is what we would consider buy and hold investors. Now it's hard to put an exact...
    Article #634)  4 Types of Drawdowns and Their Root Cause
    Brent Osachoff
    • Jan 21
    • 8 min

    Article #634) 4 Types of Drawdowns and Their Root Cause

    VTS Community, With the S&P 500 down over 7% from its highs and the Nasdaq down about 11%, we also find ourselves in an uncomfortable...
    Article #633)  Tactical Volatility on hold, Aggressive Vol will take the lead
    Brent Osachoff
    • Jan 7
    • 6 min

    Article #633) Tactical Volatility on hold, Aggressive Vol will take the lead

    VTS Community, As we've talked about throughout this week, there are very few functional changes to the portfolio to start 2022. Most of...
    Article #632)  Part 5  -  VB Threshold strategy through the 2020 pandemic
    Brent Osachoff
    • Nov 15, 2021
    • 6 min

    Article #632) Part 5 - VB Threshold strategy through the 2020 pandemic

    VTS Community, Continuing on with the discussion on VTS strategies during the pandemic, we'll talk about what could be considered the...
    Article #631)  Part 4  -  Tactical Volatility strategy through the 2020 pandemic
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    Article #631) Part 4 - Tactical Volatility strategy through the 2020 pandemic

    VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
    Article #630)  Part 3  -  Tactical Balanced strategy through the 2020 pandemic
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 14, 2021
    • 4 min

    Article #630) Part 3 - Tactical Balanced strategy through the 2020 pandemic

    VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the 2020 pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation...
    Article #629)  Part 2  -  Defensive Rotation strategy through the pandemic
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 12, 2021
    • 4 min

    Article #629) Part 2 - Defensive Rotation strategy through the pandemic

    VTS Community, How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic? Part 1: Why we moved to cash Part 2: Defensive Rotation Part 3: ...
    Article #628)  Part 1:  How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic?
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 6 min

    Article #628) Part 1: How did VTS Strategies really do during the pandemic?

    VTS Community, Part 1: How did VTS strategies really do during the pandemic? In a planned 6 part series of articles over the next...
    Article #627)  Best Asset Class for Low Volatility?  Why it's NOT Stocks
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 8, 2021
    • 5 min

    Article #627) Best Asset Class for Low Volatility? Why it's NOT Stocks

    VTS Community, In this article from last week, we went over the performance of 13 different ETFs and asset classes that could potentially...
    Article #626)  Tactical Investing WHIPSAW!  -  What is it, how to reduce it?
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 6, 2021
    • 5 min

    Article #626) Tactical Investing WHIPSAW! - What is it, how to reduce it?

    VTS Community, All methods of investing have advantages and disadvantages so determining what style a person will adopt is just a matter...
    Article #625)  Tactical Long Volatility Allocations are Difficult, but Important
    Brent Osachoff
    • Oct 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    Article #625) Tactical Long Volatility Allocations are Difficult, but Important

    VTS Community, Appreciate all the engaging emails about yesterday's blog, and there was a lot of good feedback on what asset class would...
    Article #624)  What's the Best Asset Class for Safety when Volatility is elevated?
    Brent Osachoff
    • Sep 30, 2021
    • 5 min

    Article #624) What's the Best Asset Class for Safety when Volatility is elevated?

    VTS Community, As we continue the quest to make improvements to the VB Threshold strategy that crushed it for years but has recently been...
    Article #623)  VTS Beta:SPX exposure when Aggressive, Safety, or Quasi Market Short
    Brent Osachoff
    • Sep 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    Article #623) VTS Beta:SPX exposure when Aggressive, Safety, or Quasi Market Short

    VTS Community, Given all the uncertainties in the market right now, Evergrande, Fed taper talk, the debt ceiling, volatility metrics are...
    Article #621)  Growth vs Value Correlation is alarmingly low
    Brent Osachoff
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 3 min

    Article #621) Growth vs Value Correlation is alarmingly low

    VTS Community, Growth vs Value correlation is at extreme lows: When trying to gauge the pulse of market participants and potential risk...
    Article #620)  Investing Success Requires Decoupling from the S&P  -  Low Correlation Investing
    Brent Osachoff
    • Aug 13, 2021
    • 6 min

    Article #620) Investing Success Requires Decoupling from the S&P - Low Correlation Investing

    VTS Community, Decoupling from the market is hard sometimes... I've mentioned this in a few livestreams and people are always surprised...
    Article #619)  Tactical Balanced strategy explained  -  Stocks Bonds Gold  -  Covid Adjustment
    Brent Osachoff
    • Jul 27, 2021
    • 5 min

    Article #619) Tactical Balanced strategy explained - Stocks Bonds Gold - Covid Adjustment

    VTS Community, Tactical Balanced strategy since Jul 17, 2006 * Remember live trading started January 1st, 2012, but since the strategy is...
    Article #618)  Is the Market Crashing?  -  The Cash VIX Term Structure might know the answer
    Brent Osachoff
    • Jul 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    Article #618) Is the Market Crashing? - The Cash VIX Term Structure might know the answer

    VTS Community, I've timestamped our most recent livestream from Saturday and will send that out to the general VTS newsletter today so...
    Article #617)  Why move from Stocks to Bonds in Low Volatility?  -  Defensive Rotation VGLT vs QQQ
    Brent Osachoff
    • Jul 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Article #617) Why move from Stocks to Bonds in Low Volatility? - Defensive Rotation VGLT vs QQQ

    VTS Community, Today I'd like to preemptively answer an important question that I suspect might start coming up soon in my email inbox. ...
    1
    2345