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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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i have 1k UVIX bagholding from cost basis $40 lol
gains a gain. I have 3000 UVIX at 5.97. Only wish I had more
Sold my UVIX calls last week for ~90% gain like a tard :/
70% cash 30% UVIX Straight chillin' over here
If you want to bet on it, vix related etfs. Like UVIX or UVXY.
30% UVIX 70% CASH This is gonna be so satisfying to watch
I don’t always UVIX, but when i do…
Will VIX/UVIX/VIXY ever spike big? After liberation day theyre allergic to any movement
I’m down 40% on my UVIX in my Roth IRA… I am not a smart man
Just chucked 100K into UVIX we are now allowed to invade Greenland
Inverse indexes like SQQQ, UVIX, etc. I’m not only exiting the US market, I’m short on it.
I held my UVIX calls through market closes rip or RIPPP?
Got me some cheap UVIX and popcorn. 🌈
TZA and UVIX is likely to work out soonish, but who knows. I set my GTC sell orders in batches.
Buy TZA and UVIX rite meow, hold for a bit. NFA
Dang might do TQQQ/UVIX intra week calls then
And theres the next leg down. I'm 30% UVIX 70% cash
Protip: Don’t hold UVIX over night, use stops unless you’re a retard. Also, i’m a retard. Also also, i make money by holding UVIX over the weekend because mango is more retarded than me
Around 40 UVIX calls from last week. Let's hope for a Trump shit storm
Could have bought $UVIX Up 13% and $BOIL natural gas leveraged ETF and been up like 50% on that and sprinkled in one of each of the leveraged short ETFs like RKLZ RGTZ HOOZ MUD NVD and been up like 100% over this weekend lol. Why didn’t I think of this last week
Could have bought $UVIX Up 13% and $BOIL natural gas leveraged ETF and been up like 50%
Happy that I full-ported into UVIX, but I hate this very much. I'd rather be a part of the free world... 😞
My port has like 40% UVIX and 40% MSTZ. Can't wait for open 🎁
bought UVIX on Friday assuming something crazy would happen over the weekend. I was more thinking Iran tbh
40% of my port in UVIX, fucking bring it
$UVIX calls finally on the menu
thankfully I bought UVIX yesterday
Put 40% of my port in UVIX lol
This is why I bought UVIX and SPXS on Friday. It was too calm with what was going on and implied volatility way too low.
This might actually be a part of my alpha, as I’ve spent nearly a year smoothing options prices and then several years improving my price smoother. I can basically figure out the fair/marketable option values on any underlying, even with very wide b/a spreads (UVIX comes to mind as one of the worst). Then I place orders at the theo price recommended by my system, which actually can be dangerous because I may have many contracts within a single order and pricing it wrong would make me lose instantly. My orders don’t always go through immediately, which is a good sign. Sometimes I have to wait 1-2 days for an order to go through, which tells me I may be getting a deal. Other times I get surprisingly good fills instantly and wonder whether I miscalculated the combo value, or I actually did get a great deal. And both cases are true at different times. It balances out. And usually I do plan for very large slippage, though this is relative because some of my combos are really hard to price and I’m not sure if MMs make profit off those, unless my order just fits into their inventory. I also noticed lots of my orders fill via internal pool or PFOF MM, as the exchange is marked “BEST” and Schwab won’t provide any details. I’m guessing that Schwab’s partner MM may match some of my orders against others to offload the risk immediately, even if the contracts are different. So I may be trading against other retail indirectly.
So you're saying my UVIX calls will print?
Got UVIX calls at close Friday for the millionth time,will they finally print? 😭
Are these FUCKING VIXY/UVIX calls I have stacked up like some hoarder finally going to move tomorrow? Christ enough with that shit being hammered down all the time.
Easy: every leveraged volatility product, like UVXY or UVIX
Vix is so low right now UVIX is a steal at these prices
Up 8k on INTC and a shitload on metals but it's not satisfying. I feel like I have 3 children, my favorite (puts) is off in the corner being retarded and all he does is jerk off all day while the other two I don't like as much but they're "OK" are brain surgeons. This despite the face that I only have small bets in puts and shit like UVIX calls. I want them to succeed. I need metals to decouple, again, from stonks.
Yeah, I'm already riding a bunch of UVIX/VIXY calls so I'm hoping that shit takes off too
Please buy my UVIX covered calls.
Who’s got a short term play for Supreme Court decision on tariffs this Friday? UVIX?
That’s the only thing that sucks about iron condors and spreads for that matter. Back in Oct 2022 IV was still really high and I was making hand over fist selling out spreads in the bull market. I literally didn’t think I’d need to worry about money again. Then one after another “black swan” type things wiped my profits out over the next 5 months. The formula that worked suddenly didn’t. Then I had made a boat load selling .15 delta SPY put spreads 45 days out. All was going well til April 2025. Again, all my profit wiped out on the stupid tariff crap. Seems like as soon as I get profits, I get wiped. I do have UVIX as a hedge now. So there’s that…..
How is VIX up 3% but UVIX down 4%
How’s UVIX down when everything else is down
I keep averaging down my UVIX positions by rolling 45 day CC collecting premiums. Not to worried though. This Santa Claus rally will correct in the new year. [https://imgur.com/a/zk7IVsm](https://imgur.com/a/zk7IVsm)
I’m in UVIX and obviously that tanked too. 🤨
The last time I timed a vix spike perfectly with 30DTE ATM calls, I was very disappointed with only making like 20% gains. UVIX stocks would have returned almost twice as while giving me more staying power, since time decay isn't nearly as bad.
This is positive news for my UVIX calls
I will never not buy 3 week dated calls on UVIX/VIXY when VIX is this retardedly low.
Just slowly putting a few more grand into VXX/UVIX until the next vol event then back to SPY and DPXL shares on the next dip to preserve my early 2026 lead on SPY
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
Buying some UVIX tomorrow for insurance.
I'm not saying to pump all your money into it right now, but boring VXX/UVIX will print to fuck at some point in Q1
Anyone noticed the SEVERE contango in /VX futures for the next 3 months? particularly december vs. january+feb? this is going to skullfuck UVIX (not unusual) . thinking of selling 30 DTE naked calls on UVIX if i can get a good fill on Monday while hedging by going long on the backmonth /VX future. ratio - 3:1.
UVIX shares. Just going to sit in it until it 3x
UVIX is straight up broken, and fails to deliver the goal of the ETF. If you're lucky, get out and do not mess with it again. There are plenty of articles out there to read about it, don't take my word for it
He has UVIX, not UVXY (not that it makes much of a difference here).
I used to, until I realized it doesn't matter what I do, say, or feel, on the national stage, so I turned off the news. I pay attention to my family, friends, and coworkers, and just don't worry about the rest of the world. (I still do vote, though. And I'm long UVIX calls.)
TO SELL, i periodically held through multiple bull runs and watched my bag go down (speculative bets like btc, etc, mstr etc) This time i didnt fuck up, i picked mstr up at like 100$ pre split, made a solid 4500% on it, bet on it going down and purchased SMST at 22$ and sold it at 76$ Purchased intel at 15$ sold it at 37 Bought ETHA around 15-22$ sold it also around 35-37$ Now im betting on a semi conductor slow down, current positions are in TZA, SOXS, UVIX and some calls on the vix 18$ End of Jan expiry. I think after christmas we see action in venezuala, japan rate hike on friday. (small position) Then im sitting on mostly cash and commodities (rio tinto, enbridge) "Hoping" for a small dip and entering into some safer positions for the long run. I learned alot from 2017-2025 and im finally learning to take profit and use it towards my home and debt & to execute capital when there is blood on the streets.
UVIX has barely moved at all the past two weeks. I’m pissed. I’ve been doing calls with it the past few weeks and no big moves
VIX up, markets dumping, but VIX ETFs like UVIX, 2x leveraged VIX is going nowhere. Why? It’s because VIX second month futures are already at 20, meaning some downside to the market was already expected. If markets don’t keep going down even more, expect new all time lows for UVIX.
UVIX and UVXY are jokes. I wish there was a straight vix play.
UVIX is not related to the VIX it's based on the LONGVOL index lol
how the fuck is UVIX up less than VIX
SPY about to be down 1 percent my UVIX shares are up 3 percent this is why the market is manipulated slow controlled selloff to ensure no volatility so option premiums do not go up
market is crashing overnight while VIX bleeds during the day my UVIX shares arent even going up lol
Vol sellers came in hard, as expected for an FOMC week, but I thought they'd back off a bit after ORCL and AVGO dented the AI trade. Instead, they doubled down after the morning dip and kept all those put values suppressed. I suspect they won't buyback vol until later next week, which means I'll be sitting on UVIX and UVXY bags for a few more days :/
Wild week. Made a hefty bag today betting against semiconductors (SOXS ftw) but the absolutely filthy shenanigans going on with VIX futures right now completely wrecked my UVIX and UVXY positions.
How actually do I time UVIX. Every time I look at it it's like "This economy rocks! Yippee!"
for anyone who thinks these red futes are fake open an after hours screener look at the volume of UVIX SQQQ SOXS and other bear etfs bought millions and millions of inverse etf and you think that there wont be a massive drawdown after sell the new rate cut? we are only getting one more cut if we are lucky which means the market will throw a tantrum until the odds of more go up thats the name of the game look at last week
so much UVIX SQQQ and SOXS bought after hours we are gonna have a -2% day tomorrow minimum they are mad we only getting 1 cut next year maybe none if things keep getting worse when silver pumps it means stocks will crash not even gold is safe now
Beware VIX holders or those thinking of buying VOL products: UVIX is decaying by literally 20% PER month. Good for VIX shorters though.
What kind of dolt isn't loading up on VIXY/UVIX calls and shares right now? Holy shit, free money.
Im holding my UVIX calls as well. We will rally tomorrow
Buy UVIX calls at open and then sell after J Pow finishes speaking
UVIX daytrade around 2pm will be ez money if this happens.
I wouldn't necessarily say it is more complicated, it just has its own peculiarities that make it particularly dangerous, even for experienced traders, let alone beginners. The difference in liquidity, the devious expansion of bid-ask spreads, there are just different ways you can get screwed on VIX options. If you have an interest in VIX, I would suggest you first get very familiar with the VIX landscape as a whole before diving into VIX options. VIX futures, and how popular VIX ETFs like UVIX and UVXY are constructed, you'll want to be comfortable with all of these things before trading VIX options. Or, you might find that one of these other instruments better suits your needs than VIX options.
UVIX calls full port for Christmas Day tomorrow
Feels like crash coming! Hedging with UVIX!
Some UVIX calls for this week
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.
UVIX printed $7.77. This is extremely lucky and our Chinese brethren will be doing a yeoman’s job in full porting into UVIX.
If it trades sideways mon/tuesday why wouldn’t it be a good idea to load up on UVIX calls? Wouldn’t vol premiums be low for a potential crash with FOMC decision Wednesday? Would spy puts or SOXS calls be better??
Surprised UVIX sank so much this week
Blew half my paycheck on UVIX calls today, does that mean i have room temperature IQ?
!banbet UVIX 9.67 2w If you had to choose, would you rather win a banbet or make money?