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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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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
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%