SVIX
-1x Short VIX Futures ETF
Mentions (24Hr)
300.00% Today
Reddit Posts
Best ways to profit from market crashes/downswings? Options on volatility ETP/ETF?
Can you please explain SVIX to me like I'm a 5 year old?
Shorting VIX investment idea - Tell me what y'all think
Shorting VIX investment strategy - Tell me what y'all think
I got some new crayons from Wendys, my first DD.
Thoughts on the UVIX and the SVIX??
UVIX soared nearly 40% on the day! An investor's "dream" return, what other investment would have such a return?
Mentions
I got long SVIX a bit early. Rough ride ahead
Another retard here with you already with my algorithmic trigger pointing bullish Monday! IMO, You are not. As far as I know SPX must touch 6810 even if market opens lower. I have ITM SPY calls,TQQQ, SOXL and SVIX. If market dips, I will buy more right at open. In addition, I am betting 0DTE tomorrow. If everything goes as per my expectations!!
now that /VX backwardation is in full swing, do NOT blow your load on SVIX in one day like I did last year. WAIT until it gets really fucked, then start stroking real slow. thank me later.
The best thing you can do is sell Cash Secured Puts on inverse indexes. There’s so many ways to make money. Start selling CSPs on the SVIX. Start selling next day expiring call credit spreads on the SPY or SPX. Sell CSPs on CORD. There’s absolutely no reason to sit and watch. This is THE time to sell options. You want the Vix high. Collect that premium ladies and germs. But some TSLZ shares. Start shorting the darn market.
UVIX calls ITM this week, buying SVIX weekly calls for next week
made fat stacks selling SVIX on Monday, covered a little late today but good enough. love harvesting decay.
UVIX puts, SVIX calls noiuce
SVIX dip was the move today, already up 10% from lows
made fat stacks buying SVIX last year when /VX curve flipped...
SVIX was free money at open
LOL look at the /VX futures curve. SVIX is going to get fucked six way. great time to buy it if u can time and position size this shit well though
for those who don't trade futures, do yourself a favor and grab some SVIX over the course of today. you're welcome.
I know it’s based off of futures but i still have a hard time wrapping my head around SVIX being red when VIX is down multiple points
Yeah def just going with SVIX shares next time
My SVIX is 5% since lows this morning, much better reward/risk ratio
BOTH - SVIX and TQQQ are easy to borrow on ETrade. wild. love harvesting rebalancing decay on these etfs
MSFT pumpin. Banks pumpin. SVIX dumpin. Big green for me today. How did anyone lose money?
Why are VIX and SVIX both green at the same time? 🙃
only vix related etf i buy is SVIX.
You could also buy calls on the SVIX
All comments here are correct, VIX options are priced in futures, there is no way to trade spot VIX. I can add that I tried this myself recently buying a call spread when VIX dropped below 14, and barely broke even when it was above 18. Futures just don’t react to today’s volatility the way the spot VIX number does. Expected volatility vs implied volatility. I thought “VIX is at 14, surely it will go up”, but so did the people selling the contracts, so it was priced in. VIX ETFs all trade on futures as well and all have pretty aggressive decay, so you can’t just accumulate and wait for a pop. Best way to play VIX I’ve found is buying SVIX during spikes.
👀 Did dump puts for SVIX during his keynote though so there's that
Might get some SVIX for the inevitable taco
So glad I sold SVIX last week.
Leveraged ETF (uses swaps with embedded financing costs to give multiples of price exposure) like SSO/UPRO Shortvol fund that harvests the decay between m1-m2 futures contracts on SPY (if the futures are in contango, you steadily make several percent per month) but when short term volatility spikes you experience massive drawdowns. $SVIX.
Great points. At least you understand what you’re talking about, and know my challenges :) Sometimes I post my trades or position profile on Twitter/X so it’s not difficult to verify. Just yesterday I posted one of my current positions (only the risk profile) with only $1600 margin use and I’ve already made $6K profit on it, still holding 30 contracts: https://x.com/deus_trader/status/2008251563748585939 Though usually I do better and may have 100-500 contracts on an underlying mixed across tenors and calls/puts that balance each other and together take maybe $10K-$30K margin max (lots of expiring worthless contracts too). I also have positions on cheap stocks where margin use is smaller. But you’re actually right to be suspicious because now thinking about this and looking through my account, I own thousands of cheap contracts that may now be worthless, and which I just keep until expiry as a hedge and for margin improvement. For example initially I may own 100 cheap long DOTMs spread across tenors and sell some ATMs against those, then after a while the DOTMs are worth so little they aren’t even worth selling, so I keep them till expiration. I may even have 20K worthless contracts expiring Jan 16th, because I was trading them throughout last year and many of those that I couldn’t get out of are now worthless. Actually couple weeks ago in December I tried so sell many for $0.01 as a tax loss, but couldn’t. They’re worth literally $0. I only managed to get out of some of them by buying spreads and ratios and spending a few cents per order rather than collecting anything. I couldn’t even get out at all of some underlyings like SVIX where liquidity is thin and min bid/ask is $0.05. Some of my past trades that I posted on X had ~50 contracts in a single trade. Sometimes I have 100 contracts per order, distributed among 3-4 legs. The required margin on such single trade can be $4K - $30K. I do more of those with lesser margin. Even at 10-15 contracts per order, it’s not that difficult to do 10 orders per day and accumulate huge number of contracts, especially if you let many expire worthless. And worthless in my case doesn’t mean short but mostly long. Anyway, so last week when writing this post I just ran a quick query to total all the qty, regardless if they’re worthless. I usually use up all my margin because even my open orders take out margin and I don’t know which ones may go through and when. But generally with my own contracts becoming worthless after a while my margin use can improve. I actually don’t have too many “heavy” positions right now with expensive contracts. And when I gain profit, I literally see more margin available and increasing in front of my eyes. Not always, but it’s nice to see because then I know some stock blew up to either side and I have to find which one to close it.
SVIX SVXY got that congango steepness working in is favor like in 2022-2024 again
lol SVIX back in always go up mode when market falls. gotta love that impervious VIX
I have a conundrum, I’m buying SVIX calls that are printing, I’m shorting SLV and I’m also buying SOXS. If the market was complacent none of these trades would be working. Calling all Militant bers to battle stations🐻👀🫵
Buy SVIX calls, sell SLV….. buy SLV at 45 and go back to hibernation Watch em🐻👀🫵
If you’re not buying SVIX you don’t want money. Ber knows !!
Long SVIX fuck your calls
Now that (1) /VX for Jan Feb and March is in deep fucking contango, and (2) The dollar is losing value faster than you are losing your ber arse buying puts, and (3) I've cum to realise that teh gae is not bad, just misunderstood, AND (4) SVIX is for whatever reason easy to borrow (on ETrade, don't know about others) Selling SVIX short would be the perfect hedge for the "investors." For degens like me, shorting it in small batches (not going full regard) sloooowly as we bleed up, would be an excellent trade. upvote if you agree. IF you don't agree, just know that I fucked your mum last night
Given that everyone is on vacation and the market is dead, Jan 2 $23.50 calls on SVIX. Anything higher than 24.23 is profit and its moved up 1.8 in the last 6 trading days, which is the length of the call (currently 23.87). I expect next week to be just as boring as this week. Disclaimer: I'm not degenerate enough to do this myself, but it did look like an interesting trade
Options have a brutal built-in self education course; I do not recommend. Some alternatives: 1. STRC. Requires some trust in MSTR but is supposedly over collateralized. Yield is over 10% and adjustable. 2. Dividend life insurance. I have policies that are 10% base insurance, 90% "paid up additions" and after several years of owning them I have the cash value growth match the SP500 with guardrails. Yield is around 7%. (Load with this design is about 10% versus 50% or more with traditional policy design). 3. If you're entrepreneurial and understand local real estate, offer hard money loans. Rates are +15% but you need to structure loans with recourse and know what you're doing. I know a guy doing it and he loves it, turning into retirement income for him. 4. Short Volatility. If you're stuck on stocks and don't like STRC or want more control then do this. There's discussions here on reddit about how to do it. Once again, risk management is key. I only buy SVIX, never short, and always have a stop loss. I won't mention my CAGR but other stock trades don't hold a candle to it, it's like staring at the sun.
SVIX is easy to borrow now with some brokers. Most reliable short I've encountered.
SVIX is easy to borrow on etrade LOL. shorted just 30 shares for a start. will start building this hedge . so much better than buying puts or donating money to UVIX's decay
I ve been eyeing SVIX puts for the same. If vix spikes SVIX tanks hard. But I wont put 50 K. Maybe 2K.
This trade is hard to time correctly but if you time it right it pays off super well, But SVIX looks pretty bullish right now
SVIX and the etp's track vix futures, not the index. You're also better off probably buying calls on UVXY, UVIX, or VXX. Also, trying to predict spikes is hard and you're more than likely going to lose money on this but good luck.
Good news! You can buy XIV again with SVIX, just be careful of random -90% days
So how we feeling about SVIX today? Shorting that shiz? Looks like easy money if we calm or we get fooked royally.
If the ^VIX breaks past $27.52 then I’d say start buying shares of SVIX to bet against it short term ngl. If it dosnt break, we going back down. We’ve been here before a few times , we never break that point . That’s the key for me.
Your buy signal is when SVIX hits $9, SOXL hits $7, and Saylor gets liqudated and sent to prison.
Google says alcohol consumption remains stable during hard times. What happens is that people shift to drinking more at home which is much, much cheaper. people already do the majority of their weed smoking at home, so the cheaper alternative is to either smoke less, or shift to alcohol, which is cheaper.... Bur go for it, and buy those weed stocks. :) I hope you get rich! As for me, Im selling CSPs against VIXY until SVIX hits 14, at which point I'll buy directly into that and sell covered calls against it until it gets back to 20.
Gonna help you out. Just inverse yourself. For example, buy SQQQ instead of QQQ. Buy SVIX instead of VIX.
What to look for today: Strong sell-off at open Brief bounce-back to even Another dump to take us back to where we started Slow steady climb during the day to end at +0.68% Endless amount of "bers r fuk" comments during this time SVIX ending the day above 20 Zero movement in the aftermarket
anyone going into the SVIX today?
shorting /VX is what I do. I opened more /VX december shorts today. But a lot of folks here are not comfortable with futures or trade in their IRAs where they can only buy, not short. so SVIX is a (poor) substitute for that.
Those who are panicking -- just take a look at /VX for this month, for dec and for Jan. this is why SVIX has taken only a small shit. because the market is pricing this correction as short lived. either sell naked calls or outright short if you feel like you want to trade. or start buying SVIX as it approaches 15 . you know the drill. when it looks like the world is ending, buy. with leverage. made a tidy pile in apr, will make a tidy pile this time.
Just buy SVIX calls atp, volatility will drop at some point
In the fine print it specifically termination if it fell below 80% on a single day. The new one, "SVIX", doesn't have the same stipulation.
SVIX +10% since friday open lol amazing
UVIX = 3X leveraged VIX. Aims to go up or down 3X whatever VIX does SVIX = double leveraged opposite of VIX. I’m personally in $20k of UVIX. I think there more volatility ahead even though the market is up today
Just buy SVIX if you wanna bet against the VIX
JNUG right before it fundamentally broke, BTC right before it went from 60 to 20, most recently SVIX right before tariffs. Needless to say they’re all back and I sold at the bottom. Currently riding VIXY into the ground.
I don’t play VIX options directly (they decay fast), but I sometimes look at the ETNs around it (UVIX, VIXY, SVIX) for premium selling. As of 09/25, **30DTE/30Δ returns** look like this: * **UVIX (IV30 \~154):** Put ≈ **10.66%**, Call ≈ **8.84%** (3-mo avg: Put 8.21%, Call 7.41%) * **VIXY (IV30 \~70):** Put ≈ **1.98%**, Call ≈ **3.35%** (3-mo avg: Put 3.57%, Call 4.06%) * **SVIX (IV30 \~63):** Put ≈ **7.37%**, Call ≈ **7.99%** (3-mo avg: Put 4.32%, Call 3.03%) UVIX has huge premiums (and risk), VIXY is thinner/steadier, SVIX is interesting if you want to fade vol. I’d size small since vol products can rip hard.
What maturities would you sell? the VIX pretty much always mean reverts back down after a spike... With Vol plays I've only ever done spot on the ETFs never options. Back in April when the VIX was elevated I went long UVIX, made about 90% in a few weeks and then closed and immediately went long SVIX at around the end of April, just hit the bid on that position this morning for another 90% gain (rode the mean reversion wave down) Selling puts over that period would NOT have worked out well... Just for some perspective
Normally yes - but SVIX options are incredibly low-volume, as in zero open interest for many deep ITM options. Some days I feel like I'm the only one playing in that sandbox, when I buy 5 calls and I'm the only open interest on that particular option. I don't know if it's just a lack of interest in SVIX, or if it's where people normally fear to tread.
Good deal - but I'm curious as to the current value proposition of UVIX calls, vs. SVIX puts. The puts look cheaper to me, and they've been VERY good to me, but I could be missing something ...
Me, except for SGOV and SVIX. I have nvidia and the rest are EU stocks. Which have done really well actually.
Full port UVIX was NOT the move this morning lads. Praying we just keep rallying and SVIX gets me back to breakeven 😂
When it tanks put it all in SVIX, it’s split 60/40 with long term capital gains
SVIX will do this, but I wouldn't recommend
The only strategy I’ve ever used successfully (and begrudgingly) is weekly SVIX calls and putting half into reinvesting in SVIX and the other half in UVIX and UVXY for the inevitable dumpster fire. UVXY and UVIX swelled to 80$ and 100$ respectively during first tariff announcements. They are 14$ and 17$ now. I have watched VIX every day of my life for the last 10 years and I’m convinced it’s where I can thousands into millions during the next true market crash.
Since it’s just the two of us here… I’m playing SVIX weekly calls every fucking week and putting all the earnings into UVIX and UVXY for the inevitable crash. 17$ ETF that spiked to 100$ when the OG tariffs came out. Imagine when the market truly corrects. I was there trading TVIX during COVID before it got delisted. 7$ volatility stock surged to 1000$ a share in 3 months. I’m a bear forced to trade like a bull..
I fucking Yolod into SVIX.
Ironic, since im lime up 300% total on all my SVIX trades
RIOX and SVIX have been my biggest cash cows I might just start investing in shit that ends in X or smth
Don’t tell these morons about SVIX it’ll be the new SPY…
In February I had shorted five lots (500 shares) of broadcom that I covrred once the tariff panic struck. I habitually short SVIX weekly because that ETF is designed to lose money. Then I also short UVXY because, again, the way it is structured, it keeps losing money. It is hard to time the top, but selling a little each day works. Taking profit is also hard to gt accurately... but even if you are close to the bottom it's good enough. The best shorts are tripled leveraged ETFs that undergo decay . If you use them in a way they are not intended (i.e., short shares instead of buying), you profit. Some of my best gains came from shorting TQQQ and SQQQ.
I bought it at 88… then sold because the market wasn’t going up at all… bought and sold a lot of things that day when it was lowest… only thing I kept was a TSLA contract and SVIX calls which paid out pretty well. But sticking with NVDA is good too. It was my go to until I realized a simple rumor about Deepseek which was a big nothing burger (as Jensen said it was) tanked the stock for a record breaking loss for any stock ever.
Some gey ber bought UVIX at $30, while I bought SVIX at $10. We are not the same LMAO
I thought I was maybe stupid to buy a bunch of SVIX yesterday, but here we are
why SVIX vs SVXY; did u buy calls or shares
I bought SVIX in April. Thank you for asking.
Is anyone buying SVIX at these levels?
How are the VIX and SVIX both green
VXX. Wait for Trump to do something miraculously stupid. Profit. Put in SVIX. Ride it down. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Did the same. SGOV and EU ETFs, although I did pick up more Nvidia when it was near 100. I also bought SVIX at the lows because it has to go back up sometime. I’m already retired so live off of my portfolio. I can’t afford to weather Trumps Taco Tuesdays.
Somehow, shorting the VIX from 52 to 18 only made you ~30% via SVIX during the Trump Dump What a fucking scam lmao
yeah, it hard to time, I've done better with SVIX on the short term
Finally sold my SVIX that I’ve been holding for a few months. Most likely taking the money and rolling it into SoFi on a bit of a dip. I still feel like SoFi is undervalued at $15.
The past week, I bought shares of DFEN, GUSH, UVIX, SDS, calls for SPXU SPXS and puts for a few companies. Will snatch up 10 shares here and there of SVIX when VIX is up. If it drops below 12.50 I’ll buy a 1 month out call for 13. 100 SHLD but not trying to to play with a CC right now
Inverse- SVIX for me Monday unless the market shrugs it off.
Au contraire, you can gamma scalp by shorting VXX, UVXY or UVIX or long SVIX, it's usually a very boring gradual upward slope with periodic explosions, April was insane. The reason I do that is that very often the VIX explodes late night when you can't sell the option. I do the same with SPX and a few commodities.
I keep cheap OTM VIX calls in my portfolio all the time for this reason, wound up buying SVIX shares overnight to secure gains until I could sell in the morning.
Time to start looking at SVIX...