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Is there a way to short volatility without selling options?
Returns on leveraged securities vs non-leveraged (UVIX vs VXX)
Is it smart to buy an ATM LEAP call for SQQQ or UVIX?
Why Now is a Great Time to Go Long UVIX and Make Money
2023-05-04 Wrinkle Brain Plays - In the style of Austin Powers
UVIX Play: Go Balls Deep & Make Money
Just went YOLO call on UVIX for April 14th. Who's with me?
Hypothetical "Volmageddon 2.0" using newly launched $UVIX Etf. ( Swipe right for 1.0 in $UVXY )
$UVIX 🎄 I like it for the market panic. What's not to like about it?
Chances for a UVIX 2x run up ahead - be on the look out for bad news.
Down 63k in the past month on UVIX (2X leveraged VIX etf)
Last Friday UVIX calls @15 exp 7/15 sold on 7/13 and then some tesla puts @715 exp 7/15 sold on evening of 7/13
My Plan for Intergenerational Wealth : UVIX ---> SVXY ---> SPY ---> Real Estate
IMPP and RDBX where good bearish bets for the start of this month. Closed my position for big gains. ( over 20% IMPP and over 40% RDBX) not to mention the 50% gain with UVIX. Market is very low now and I don’t feel like being bearish at those prices. I’m BULLISH ON BOIL
Bull trap confirmed. Positions: UVIX @ 17.74/share. Held over the weekend. I do indeed, belong here.
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?
UVXY :drakeno: UVIX :drakeyes: UVXY is BACK!
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Me thinks same. Sold all my Tessler and Amazon in my Roth for OTM Tqqq/UVIX calls, hopefully that wasn’t too reguarded 😭
Me too. For weeks. SPXU and UVIX too
I've been loading up on UVIX, SQQQ, and SPXU ready for the fall
UVIX is looking sweet, until it isn't. Risk off here.
I did weeklies on UVIX this week and it worked out okay
Sold my UVIX too early
Closed my UVIX at 130% gain for the day. Had to close because I'm about to go into a meeting and don't want to be disctracted. Ugh
This shit accelerates exponentially as market gets more and more certain things are cooked, I've got UVIX options up over 100% and im still confident they will continue to rise
Hedge my man. SQQQ, SOXS, UVIX plays have literally saved my bacon
Inverse is bloated right now but keep an eye on short holds like UVIX which can swing hard in a day depending on the news. SQQQ is a 3x inverse to S&P, BITI is crypto inverse (I stay in the CAD version because conversation kills but I know there is a 3x equivalent for USD), SOXS is 2x inverse chips. Also I pump hard into Helium. My race horse is PLSR. When volitility is down, I pump the inverse exposure. When volatility is high, I pump into Helium and a few small cap defence stocks. Don’t just take this as surface advice, research and make educated moves.
Calls on UVIX on every dip was the play all along... Why it seems so simple yet regards don't pile in and instead yolo on roulette ?
UVIX flat out allergic to red
Yes. Then UVIX is 2x leveraged inverse but don't mess with that for a while. Just play with super small amounts for a while. Seriously. Watch videos and learn. Shares are safer than options. Leaps options are considered safer options. Just learn as much as you can and don't play with more than you're willing to walk away from. I want to "invest" right now but into what? Even Gold is falling. So, I'm just slinging small option plays right now when there's no surf to keep me busy and maybe make some lunch money. Also I give terrible investment advice. lol
80/20 Call to put ration on UVIX today.
Closed all my UVIX. I don’t trust the the overnight shenanigans.
Time to sell UVIX for the day. Back in again tomorrow
I feel like some weird inexplicable buying will happen after the close. Maybe one day it will be investigated. Maybe it won’t. But this whole game is completely compromised. In short, let my last UVIX call ride and get eaten by the overnight ghost or close?
If the market wasn't so detached from reality, I would sell everything thing I own and drop it into 1dte UVIX but can't do that now can we.
I've been steadily adding to my positions in: SQQQ, SPXU, and UVIX. If/When we crash, I'll make a fabulous profit.
I've got a ton of UVIX calls for friday, let's see if its fine dining or ice soup for this weekend
…. and UVIX calls on ANY bit of seemingly-positive “news” *continues* to be the play for the foreseeable future
Is it ok to hold UVIX overnight? It’s a leveraged VIX ETF
UVIX calls slapping yet again .. too easy — until it’s not
Listen, I know I was about to make money off of a bad thing but with nearly five digits of UVIX (in dollars), i really wish he didn't say that before we could trade... Funny how all the institutional traders were able to make all this money and us retail bros got fucked.
Will UVIX calls finally print tmmrw 😭
Bullish on UVIX for the week from here on out
Sitting on UVIX calls overnight makes me feel safe and protected. Weird.
I've been having fun with UVIX on Thursdays and Fridays.
So UVIX calls a week out yeah? Seem fairly cheap right now
Good thing I set my alarm and sold my UVIX up +15% and didn’t wake up to it down -15%
I've only been playing with UVIX lately. Yumm
Honestly if we have another liquidity pump buy it while everything is up briefly. This worked for me last week with UVIX. Just don’t hold it for long the vix stocks aren’t meant for that
Finally just got assigned yesterday on ASTS $0 March 20th covered calls that were from last June/July’s run where I rolled 4 or 5 times. I’ll be smart with that money this time and by putting it all into UVIX on Monday
Different discussion today, right? I fucking raked it in with UVIX today. Left some to sit over the weekend, which I hate, but doing that with these contango fuckers and I've been caught holding my dick (UVIX) before... May volitility roar this weekend.... Then chill, so I can ride the SVIX down like last weekend
Iron condor in UVIX, why the hell not, sure I might break all the bones in my body like Evil Knievel, but the story will be legendary, and you'll be able to read it on the side of the cardboard box I'll be living in
USO and UVIX That rate hike probability is higher now, speak on that
UVIX at 8.50 and my fucking 4cs and 4.50cs arent moving jfc
A lot of people got burned bad 2day it’s okay! I may try TQQQ/UVIX calls 2 weeks out tmmrw 😬
panic sold my UVIX at the very bottom but came to my senses and bought back for a few cents more
UVIX barely holding up my port
might trim some more UVIX and roll it into DRIP 🤔
You can but it's an overpriced scam. UVIX and SVIX shares work more like how you'd expect
I’m trading the best I ever have. Cash secured puts. My UVIX shares are poppin. And credit spreads on the SPY.
VIX at 25 despite UVIX being up 23% is actually NUTS
I newb-assed my UVIX play today. Sold it for $10 gain and then it fucking ran. Rookie moves. LMFAO!
UVIX goes to 8.75 AH & blows past 9 tomorrow PM, get it strait
Full ported UVIX at close yesterday… made a nice 14% this morning 😏
Why are UVIX options cheap even a month out? We are just expecting all the current volatility to dissappear?
Inverse mkt. SQQQ, UVIX,SOXS. Basically the world is on fire rn, US is shit. The rest of the world is feeling the economic impact from the attacks. I’m looking at millions in the account rn, it’s a hard buy.
That's crazy I was just in a deep dive with GPT about backwardation in the VIX. This is where we ended up: * SPX below the gamma flip (\~6,914) * Current state: 6,838 * Dealers are in negative gamma territory. * Right now, we are in Step 1–2, pre-flattening → fragile, but not panic mode. * The curve is close enough that small SPX shocks could trigger Step 3, where UVIX reacts violently. * 6. Early warning signals * Watch these closely: * SPX drops \~1–2% intraday → triggers negative gamma amplification. * VIX rises >28 while M1–M2 spread <0.5 → indicates flattening → near backwardation. * UVIX/UVXY volume spikes → real-time sign leveraged products are entering the cascade. * SPX OTM put buying accelerates → dealers forced to hedge → reinforces volatility. * These align with historical patterns that precede volatility bursts rather than full crashes.
The problem is I got in too early and the market ran up a little bit the morning I bought it. I'm looking at SPXU vs SPY on a long range and I am looking at a huge disconnect. Keeping an eye on Backwardation in the VIX futures, we might just be early. I think I stand more to gain than to lose with a 1% position in this. UVIX might be a way to hit turbo on this if things do get bad. :D
Bought 3/27 UVIX calls anticipating this. Feels like it's either free money or I get destroyed by a delusional market.
Nothing personal guys but i really need the market to crash a little more since i bought 2k UVIX shares at 10 dollars a while back and didnt realize it was a depreciating asset
I’ve tried shorting VIX/UVIX/UVXY a few times and every time my puts lose premium while VIX drops
I'm not as regarded as many in this sub since I don't buy options, but I did buy some UVIX yesterday and feel pretty smart about it. Surely I can time the market by selling at the peak!
I have now been holding sentry here on the Cali Coast for 5 hours. Times of war require great sacrifice. Even wars that ended 2 days ago. Still no sign of the Iranian Drones- but to be honest I may have been distracted by watching the bid/ask on my UVIX options and missed a few. Latest developments are some high school kids were taking dabs, and a couple got in a kerfuffle when the banana boat spray sunscreen blew into
Been doing this with UVIX and it feels like im playing chicken with a semi everyday
Yeah you’d usually just want to short UVIX with an amount you won’t get margin called on, contango makes it so you can’t lose the trade as long as you don’t get forced out of it The ludicrous IV on puts basically kills most of the gains
UVIX will not move instantly though, it is 2x long futures so days of sustained vix movement are what move UVIX. It is not simply a 2x leveraged VIX and will not behave that way.
sun is shining, put LEAP green, UVIX pos +23% fuck humility
**UVIX may triple.**
UVIX calls. buy them now & stop getting witched on spy puts.
Not at all, I average a $.45 credit, put max 30 condors on one strike date, have rolling spreads each day. It adds up. But it’s a far safer trade and high probability of profit. Sometimes making money is also not losing it. I’ve gotten wrecked by over extending myself and getting greedy. Some of it is luck, yesterday I put on a large UVIX call credit spread when it was over $10, dropped hard and it’s up 72%. Same for UCO, NVDA I had some major gains from earnings condors.
Thank you baby jesus....I bought some UVIX before close.
UVIX call credit spread up 72% today. Look how fast it moved from $10 to sub $8. Buying long option leveraged funds can multiply losses with daily balancing and theta. However Long Puts would have played out nicely today. Didn’t know at 930am how today would go so I chose a safer play.
I'm 100% convinced the vix goes between 75 to 100 either this week or next week. Too much liquidity churning going on. After that, it'll be a temporary bottom. Here's how I'm playing it.... Puts on the QQQ still holding from a few weeks back and they are in the money now, went all in on UVIX, I see that popping to 20 before everything settles down.
You’re ok with UVIX being leveraged?
I will also be adding some UCO call credit spreads and UVIX. These will go out towards April but since they are leveraged you collect a higher percentage of the spread. $1 wide on UVIX would get Me around $.66, whereas an SPY spread would be maybe $.55 if I have the same strike dates and deltas. Hope that makes sense. If I didn’t say this before, avoid the Nasdaq QQQ SQQQ TQQQ.
$UVIX up +100% in the last month
My 8 UVIX 3/13 $9c may buy me a house at this rate.
Professor Jiang really saved my ass ngl, exited all risky pos last week on Weds and bought UVIX on Friday ahead of the oil jump. Now we see where that goes lol
Keep cash in the account and play the UVIX
been DCAing into UVIX for the last couple months under 6 trimmed 1/4 of my position eod we are not the same
Ofc my auto-closed UVIX calls are ITM now
Damn I wish I knew UVIX sooner... been trading UVXY
UVIX calls ITM this week, buying SVIX weekly calls for next week
I'm a simple man: I see UVIX dip 10% in one hour, I buy UVIX
I might as well move all my losers to UVIX until the war ends at this point. Would probably make up for the past few months
Hes thinking of a leveraged ETFs like UVIX or UVXY. Which are indeed a decaying asset since it buys and sells VIX futures, but VIX itself is not a decaying asset.
Wha positive news has dropped to reduce UVIX and pump spy none stop
All my UVIX gains slowly disappearing… fxck you spy
UVIX puts, SVIX calls noiuce
Fuck yeah got out of some UVIX bags for tidy profit today
UVIX for calls, VIX for regular short
The market will likely rise after opening. Your judgment is accurate; geopolitical conflicts usually trigger panic indices, so UVIX and SQQQ will most likely gap up at the open, and you'll probably have a paper profit. But the key is not to be greedy; get out quickly. Since you bet on the right event, don't gamble your profits on whether the event will continue to escalate. Take your profits and keep them in your pocket—that's the safest bet.