Volatility Trading Strategies

2018 was a rough year for most investors. In this video I show some benchmark performance along with my own Volatility Trading Strategies results. Feel fre...

VTS community, 2018 was the first negative year for the stock market since 2008, so needless to say it was a rough one for most investors. For those who lik...

VTS Community, Total Portfolio Solution: Q3 2018 was a fairly forgettable quarter for our portfolio with very little action either way and not a whole lot to...

I’m going to switch things up a bit and do the strategy commentary first and then below that I’ll highlight a few noteworthy events from this past quarter. V...

It’s impossible to write anything for the first quarter of 2018 without everything being about February 5th.  It’s a day that will be remembered forever.  Now...

We’ve been talking about it most of the year so why stop now.  2017 has been an unbelievably low volatility period. A picture speaks a thousand words.  That’...

2017 continues to build into what will no doubt be remembered for decades to come as that year volatility took a vacation.  There’s only been a few other tim...

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VTS Tactical Volatility Strategy:  (volatility products, XIV, VXX) After suffering that unfortunate 20% drawdown in June we very quickly recovered from it an...

Just looking at the raw numbers, it looks like a very boring quarter.  Very few trades and the final result being just a small loss.  So nothing much happene...

2016 started with a bang.  The first week of 2016 was the largest weekly drop for the S&P 500 to open a new calendar year ever, and the broad markets went on...

While there were several moments when things were looking ugly within the broad markets, the signals weren’t quite strong enough to be in any long volatility...

What I’ve been talking about for over a year now has finally happened.  The long overdue correction in the stock market finally came and with it, an opportun...

It was a very active quarter in both number of trades and percentage allocation, but sometimes that’s necessary to avoid the disasters such as what happened ...

It goes without saying that everybody likes to have profitable trading months, but for me what’s even more satisfying is not losing ground when my benchmarks...

The markets are finally without their training wheels as we’ve seen the completion of the FED’s quantitative easing program  (at least for now)  and with it ...

As far as the actual number of trades we took the quarter was pretty normal.  However, the percent of days we were in trades was very low compared to the lon...

Although we had another great quarter of trading, to be honest the trade signals were so consistently positive and easy to interpret that I can say with conf...