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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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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.
How is UVIX not up 50% today
Good news, I only need UVIX to 8X in price now to get back to where I bought them.
BWET, I should’ve stayed in it over the weekend Instead, I was in UVIX and OILU thinking they would have bigger upside
Shit I really shouldnt have sold my UVIX But I'm 100% cash so that's cool I guess
About $150 on 0DTE QQQ puts for tomorrow 5 strikes away from ITM. And one Mar20 $580 put for $500 and another $500 in UVIX shares. Unlike most people, at least I don’t full port into volatility.
Just wait to buy some $UVIX this week
damn, volatility products are like startup moonshots - when they work, they work fast, but the volatility can be brutal. a lot of whipsaw to come, stuff like UVIX is based on short term volatility, so even if the macro idea is correct, the journey can be ugly. if you have sized it as a small part of the portfolio, well, you're kind of thinking of it as a high-risk side bet, which isn't a bad way to think about it.
Idk, I’m really worried about timing this correctly if things do go the way I think… UVIX is very short term volatility. I’m stressing more about opportunities loss than losing a couple grand I put in.
Meh don’t care. Closing out my UVIX position, Monday morning.
I’m gonna be up on Monday morning. I need to set up trailing stop losses on my UVIX position in 3 tranches, at 12%, 18% and 25%. For my oilu position, I think I can let it ride past the initial spike.
The VIX is like a raging boner trapped in tighty whiteys rn. It’s getting pulled out the pp hatch Monday. UVIX 🚀
No but seriously, anybody load up on UVIX before close?
UVIX calls. Iran is going to get smacked this weekend
I loaded up on SOXS, UVIX and NVD the last 2 days... made a killing.! NVDA's price was at at a Top - the outlook was okay, but many problems could happen and probably will. A sell-off was expected today by many including me. Many problems with the economy and Geo politics. If the market pushes up Friday - i am loading up again on Inverse EFT's - it will NOT hold. The other companies I have not been paying close attn. to recently, but if i had to bet - i would say they would all go down.
Waiting for UVIX to go below 6 again
UVIX for now, plus been buying qqq puts on fridays at close as a hedge expiring mondays and selling at open, for the most part been working thanks to this nonstop shitshow of events… eventually amzn gonna boom and then i can relax
LOL Sold my only holding ($30k of UVIX) when SCOTUS ruled tarriffs illegal. I should know by now he would just override SCOTUS by Sunday..... I prob missed an easy 5k
Here is my strategy. Do not do anything. Have the cash. Wait for Friday. Look at UVIX. It might shoot up. Then buy puts. The money doubles. Cash it out. Do this every week for 20 times.
Ok... somebody tell me how do I place the highest leverage bet I physically can (without options) on Iran being used as a punching bag for this by Sunday. Oil futures? Obscure defense stock? UVIX?
Hopefully before my UVIX 2/27 calls expire
Dropped a little change on UVIX 7.5c weeklies
I've said this so many times, but I think my UVIX is finally gonna print finally
The option strategies I trade are off of 1H charts. I find they give a more robust and mosaic view of price action relative to a 1D and 5min. The line I am tracking is below $688 on QQQ. If we go below this, I’m going all in on QQQ and NVDA puts and buying shares of $UVIX. My conviction is with the volatility term structure, transitioning regimes to backwardation . One of the first clues is seeing positive net returns on the volatility ETF $UVIX. In the last two weeks, the single week returns have been ~1% and ~13% on $UVIX. The indices haven’t really moved yet but vol of vol is picking up very fast. Not a good sign volatility is increasing and being sticky below the surface. Last time $UVIX started closing above a 50 EMA on the 1D chart was last march - April when $UVIX climbed ~50-240%. This will be a great time to be long volatility if we have some crazy spikes soon.
I’m personally sticking to the cheapest shortest options I can find on the most liquid volume. Which is basically QQQ, SPY, IWM, IBIT, NVDA. I just commented this in another comment, but I’ve been studying some of the price charts from last February and April when the market started tanking. There was a week early on where the largest drops happened during regular trading hours, but also at 4:15pm. I can’t recall the date right now, but one of the days, QQQ sold off like -$20 overnight right at 4:15pm into the next open. That means you need to buy the umbrellas early before it rains . Aka grab the cheapest put you can or volatility products before they spike. The cheapest volatility product for a retail trader is $UVIX the volatility ETF. Has large volume. Last spring around this exact time, $UVIX went up ~50-240% into April. I would advise some studying and research before you do this, but that’s what I’m doing. The volatility term structure has already switched to backwardation. A great time to hold long volatility.
This week will be very volatile because of VIX expiration on Wednesday and then options expiration for February on Friday. This OPEX doesn’t have that much volume, but next OPEX for March has twice the volume. This week will be interesting because it’s condensed with this holiday. I expect even more violent intraday swings. UVIX has had two successful weeks of positive net returns (+1% and +13%) which indicates that the volatility term structure has changed
April '25 and the best most efficient straightforward low-risk/high-reward way you could think of to make money was shorting UVIX?
Anyone 'memba when UVIX and UVXY had become easy to borrow in April 2025? lol could not go wrong selling short those decaying pieces of shit.
Me buying $UVIX on Friday
i don’t get the KO put alongside the UVIX call play
If true, something like this should spike the VIX right? Might as well go in for some VIX calls or UVIX shares while you're at it
VIX UVIX UVXY VILX VIXL Gang Rise Up
VIX is such a joke (which is why i’m starting to eye UVIX again)
Of course my UVIX 5.50s are about to hit, only three days after they expired 👍👍👍
I really am not confident about the current state of things. Iran talks seemingly went as expected, but really wonder if this is something that can actually be resolved. If something were to go down, I feel it would drop us into a new dimension that a lot of new investors haven't experienced before. Going to hold UVIX for a short term play. Thoughts?
LOL I was up $6k in UVIX until this premarket..... BreakEven now
As someone with a 30% UVIX 70% cash port, I support this message
Im cash and 30% UVIX. I'm ready for 12 more rounds of this shit
my 3000 UVIX shares looking yummy too
I was just saying days like these I’m just buying and selling volatility. It’s so clean on days like this. Just large non-directional movements of volatility. We went straight up and down to the same spot with very little net movement. Great for volatility. Im just buying shares of UVIX, it moved like +16% intraday today and calls on that. Get get to VIX
Realizing it’s easiest to just buy volatility days like this. UVIX went up like 16% again intraday ? Buy and sell
UVIX 5.50P betting on Vol tanking tomorrow.
UVIX calls if you want to go hedge vol risk.
UVIX is fucking broken, and there are numerous articles out there shitting on it for failing to track VIX at all, much less the 2x VIX derivatives it claims to be able to deliver
UVIX n Raytheon calls locked in rn, probably will trade some silver/microsoft puts depending on market open
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