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ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
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VIX is spiking every 2 weeks like clockwork right now. Will it continue or will tech earnings break the cycle?
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I’ve turn bearish. Going all in UVXY now
Best tools for predicting future market sentiment
I’ve been a bear my whole life. I’m now bullish.
Sudden Spike of UVXY Appx 5% whole day while VIX is negative.
Experience with price development of UVXY put options with very long expiration time?
Looking for a serious trading partner to day trade with and share game plans with?
Yemen Just Declared War On Israel - I did a YOLO on $UVXY
Done with options today, what’s your moves for the rest of the day?
How I feel making $100 dollars on a trade after loosing 98% of my portfolio this past year
VIX calls or UVXY shares for this Iran Israel Gaza war?
Is putting 100% of your account into a CSP a Yolo?
Me simple Ape. Need learning from smart Apes.
TSLA Calls vanquished my last hope. Had $1k 24 hours ago
#Strategy Validation: Events like the US debt crisis have increased the vega significantly
PROOF the Fed is manipulating the VIX
Covered Call/PermaCollar on LABD & UVXY-Cost Basis Far Above Current Price.
Volatility is *NOT* “priced in”
Low Volatility Masks Risks to Stocks, JPMorgan Says
So i have this friend who thinks he has a new and winning strategy....
I took a year off trading and decided to get in again and start small so I don’t blow my load all at once. All of this of this has been swing trading SPXS, SQQQ, TBT and UVXY. Now I’m long in LEAPs with my profits.
What exactly am I buying into if I buy something like UVXY?
Buy UVXY, wait for bottom in '28, scoop up cheap [insert currently booming industry] stocks, profit... This even predicted a c19 crash?
Some big Spy and UVXY plays for my cake day!
Hypothetical "Volmageddon 2.0" using newly launched $UVIX Etf. ( Swipe right for 1.0 in $UVXY )
UVXY yolo. Sold $5.50 puts that expired in the money so I was assigned the shares
UVXY breaking down as spy runs. Probably does a reverse split soon
UVXY curling up at this level … a storm might be brewing?
Now back to pre-2020 lvls. Current account value:~30k. Peak:~150k. This is 1 account of 5 I manage. I switched it from ETFs & Lg-cap growth to mix-cap hyper-growth and options in 2020. Timed ‘20 bottom w/calls on UVXY. ~6k->~65k. Bought a new 35k 🚙 in cash.trade wkly.Accumulating cash at main job.
wtf happened to the bid-ask spread on UVXY? every ask price ranging from $2 to $5 was withdrawn at close
We all know the ship is sinking…but there’s money to be made!
For everyone who said “I should have bought volatility when UVXY was $8.75 - You’re welcome!
That VIX launch that occurred yesterday in the midst of a green market is a specific pattern that has foretold of major volatility increase and an imminent SPY drop in each previous occurrence. (7 for 7.)
What a week to be a gay bear. +27k gain on ABNB/SPY Puts and UVXY calls (+295%)
UVXY , holding strong until Jerome pivots us into a societal collapse 🥲💎🙌
Spy is at the top of a trendline. While UVXY is at the bottom of a trendline. If it bounces spy will bleed all week.
UVXY is at the bottom of a trendline. If it bounces here could mean a bloody week for spy.
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Looking for an audit/double check on this options trade
SPY / UVXY yolo after the VIX spike - Update. (6k --> 34k) (28k -->44k) -- Still holding.
SPY and UVXY yolo gains after the VIX spike. 6k--34k, 28k--42k |
30k SPY/UVXY yolo using all of the House's money from last weeks gains. Food stamps or lambo for this guy, no in between. Wish me luck regards
That VIX spike earlier this week hasforetold of a major volatility increase and imminent SPY drop in each previous occurrence, 6/6.
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Lol even my UVXY puts that expire next Friday are down. There's no escaping this theta decay.
I locked myself out of options to not lose too much money. Bought UVXY instead 🥴
So do I lower my cost basis on these UVXY shares or just ride this shit out?
Lately my play has been the VIX, mostly through buying and selling $UVXY Basically just checking in to see if WSB crew has seen anyone go down that path and come out alive? I got a few decades of life in my future if things work out, just checking if this $UVXY will shorten my life expectancy. I mean liberation day put $UVXY over 100 for a few months, it is currently at 48, it swings up, and it swings slightly down. But for the most part, since the beginning of the war I seem to be able to count on a swing up over 50 each week. I buy shares for the most part, sometimes options. Options are pricey, wish I was selling them instead of buying them. But 100 shares of UVXY is real money for a foolish momentum gamble.
> How do you trade chaos? UVXY, VIXY, VIXM
I’m just going to ignore the fact that you’re asking this question like the US market is the only one that exists. Asia is trading right now. Nikkei, Hang Seng, ASX are all live. Middle East exchanges trade on Sundays. Tadawul, Tel Aviv, Dubai. Forex never closes. Crypto never closes. E-mini S&P futures on Globex open Sunday 6PM ET. European pre-market is pricing in moves hours before NY wakes up. CME oil futures are already reacting. Gold and bonds caught the safe haven bid on Friday’s fear and now reverse on Sunday’s de-escalation. Two moves, two trades, same weekend. Volatility spiked on the escalation, so whoever sold premium into that panic on Friday profits massively on the IV crush Monday. VIX products like UVXY and VXX get obliterated on a gap-up open. Whoever shorted vol over the weekend prints. Credit default swaps on defense, energy, and sovereign debt were repricing OTC in real time all weekend. You escalate on Friday after close, let the fear cook all weekend, let every retail trader panic-set their Monday morning orders. Every stop-loss and limit order sitting on the book is visible to market makers. They know exactly where the liquidity is before the bell even rings. Then you leak a de-escalation on Sunday so the algos can scrape the headline and reprice futures in milliseconds while the smart money front-runs the entire move across every open exchange before US retail even wakes up. The people who move markets don’t need the NYSE bell. They have futures, overseas desks, Globex access, headline-scanning algos, OTC desks, FX desks repricing every USD pair in real time, and dark pool positioning before you even open your brokerage app. You don’t.
* UVIX * UVXY * VXX * SPXS * SDOW I believe in diversity.
My UVXY vanity license plate has been approved, now I just need VIX to skyrocket Monday so I can afford the car, but not the oil.
UVXY shares held & MESM26 futures sold
Agreed! Calls on SPXS and UVXY
Tonight’s war status speech can go one of two ways. I’ll wait to decide which way I go. Rally SOXX or rally UVXY. Either way I’m going to profit from it sitting on cash vs hoping I had already guessed right and past few months including liberation day has shown me not once have I guessed right.
UVXY/SQQQ/etc, look to other indices when volatility/SPY is high. Obviously be careful cause some I named are leveraged
Went UVXY… So far so good..
Commodities and/or companies that make shit loads of money when their commodity goes up. And fuck your stupid precious metals. I'm talking Oil, NG, Aluminum, Copper, etc. You can also buy volatility. VIX, UVXY, etc. And war stocks. Look up who makes bombs and jets and high tech infrastructure whatnot for the US/NATO. They're about to fire up some fresh orders from force attrition if nothing else, and possibly way more with real, sustained escalation. Finally, short big tech and other high beta recessionary targets. SQQQ calls, puts on the MAG7s, or smaller tech companies that are critically reliant on cheap debt. Inflation = no rate cuts = big sad for unprofitable growth stocks.
When would VIX be worth shorting if this shitshow continues? 40? 50? It's approaching dangerous levels and I smell some solid profit with a well timed short on UVXY
I am holding small gamble positions like UVXY over the weekend speaking of leveraged. Good way to lose money fast though.
Energy, Metals, UVXY, and VIX.
I bought UVXY puts for next week because he seemingly says something whenever the markets get too spicy. Literally just vibes.
Only just started to refill on UVXY and it’s already getting close to the April tariff tantrum levels.
What about an inverse fund like UVXY as a hedge?
UVXY/VIX having a +2.5% bump in overnight is not concerning at all
What going on with UVXY?
UVXY at $56.17 LOL Expect VIX to have a nice jump at open
I do Covered Calls on leveraged ETFs and it works very well for me. I'm actually shocked that many people don't do it. It requires a lot more activity and management. I do the management daily. I have plenty of time. It pays me more than my previous job and I love it. If you want to set and forget or do 30+DTEs, it won't work well. I have weekly expirations. I sell Covered Calls with anticipation that prices might drop, I take profits early by buying back and cashing out premiums, ... Etc. I trade both SOXL and SOXS, TQQQ and SQQQ, TNA and TZA, UVXY and SVIX, ... I love it.
It's bouncing off oversold levels. I noticed it's going up on below average volume I noticed above average volume on inverse etfs, SPXS, SQQQ,SDOW as well as VIX etfs, like UVXY. This is all bearish, but you have in it to win it, so I'm holding through this volatility
UVXY up and micron up. Microns definitely has some slammers saved for Wednesday.
USO and UCO don’t own oil. They own futures contracts that they roll every month. In contango (next month’s contract costs more than this month’s), every roll is a guaranteed loss — sell low, buy high, repeat. That roll cost runs 2-3% per month, compounding to 20-30% annual drag. This is how USO returned only 15% over three years despite multiple oil spikes. UCO is 2x worse because it doubles the roll cost AND adds volatility decay from daily rebalancing. In a choppy market, which a war-driven oil market absolutely is, a 2x leveraged product can lose money even when the underlying goes up. Day 1: oil +5%, UCO +10%. Day 2: oil -5%, UCO -10%. Net: oil -0.25%, UCO -1.0%. That asymmetry compounds relentlessly. If you want to express a bullish oil view without contango eating you alive, look at equity proxies: XLE, XOP for broad energy, or individual E&Ps like EOG, AR, EQT that own physical reserves and benefit from higher realized prices without the roll bleed. Or if you want the short side of the oil shock, play the countries that can’t survive $100 oil INDA (India) imports 90% of its crude, half through Hormuz, and is at its 52-week low with record capital outflows. The worst thing you can do is buy UCO thinking you’re “leveraged long oil” and hold it for months. That’s not a position — it’s a donation to the futures curve. I learned the hard way playing with MSTU and UVXY until I did the math, they always went down harder and bounced back weaker so not really 2x
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.
Bought USO and UVXY when Polymarket insiders signaled this attack was a certainty. What a ridiculous timeline this is for "investing"... and everything in general.
My USO and UVXY are going to go bananas if the Burj Khalifa is hit with a ballistic missile. I'll settle for Mia Khalifa getting hit with a meat missile though.
I’ve tried shorting VIX/UVIX/UVXY a few times and every time my puts lose premium while VIX drops
My UVXY is going to go bananas if the Burj Khalifa is hit with a ballistic missile. I'll settle for Mia Khalifa getting hit with a meat missile though.
Short UVXY, few weeks out expiry is literally easy money.
Anybody know a good vix etf that actually makes bank when your vix puts go ITM? Bought a 53p on UVXY and from $57.80 to $49.50 I made a grand total of $100. On an 8 dollar drop.
My UVXY is still holding. I'll probably roll it into AMDL when the time is right.
Any chance UVXY will be $100+ tomorrow?
Full port UVXY, SQQQ, SDS, etc. But only hold these VERY short term and use stop losses.
Better hope they're UVXY or USO calls.
My UVXY is doing well, but not as well as if a ballistic missile were to hit the Burj Khalifa.
My UVXY is up 10 percent. So glad I bought on Friday. I'm sure it'll still open negative 5 percent though, because this is a casino.
Lmao UVXY CCS with VIX at 30 is a painful place to be. Relief will come but timing it is the hard part. Hang in there.
*cries in UVXY CCS* i need some relief lmao
Kuwait City apartment building just bombed. Hoping my UVXY is green on Monday. I'm guessing I'll be up 200 percent if the Burj Khalifa is hit with a ballistic missile.
UVXY calls are the go.
My UVXY will make me rich if the Burj Khalifa is struck by a ballistic missile this weekend. Fingers crossed or Wendy's.
My UVXY will make me rich if the Burj Khalifa is struck by a ballistic missile this weekend.
You telling me I could hold UVXY shares through the weekend and it would be profitable?!
VIXY, UVXY, but they are different length VIX tracking. VVIX is the one day I think
Damn I wish I knew UVIX sooner... been trading UVXY
Got out of my UVXY put for a solid 100% and now the guilt of only buying one keeps me awake
I routinely store cash in UVXY. Been reloading it since it fell below 40 and then today I converted out at $49. Typically whenever a panic event causes VIX to spike, it correlates with times when watch list stocks are on sale.
"I think I have a $UVXY(momentum VIX) strategy worked out". Please tell me that those words are NOT the famous last words of thousands of Wall Street Bettors.
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.
UVXY Puts just to feel something
UVXY puts this morning and praying it drops
Thought about buying puts and UVXY yesterday but bulls talked me out of it
I used to sell naked UVXY calls. Huge premiums
Watching UVXY build a baseline with no respect for decay gives me pause.
Hey man. first off, you're still here. you're posting about it instead of hiding from it. that matters more than you probably realize right now. i'm not gonna sugarcoat what happened but i do want to give you some honest perspective because the emotional spiral after a loss like this is where the real damage gets done, not the loss itself. what caught most silver longs off guard wasn't just the move. it was the speed. silver dropped 40% in three days and if you were in AGQ or leveraged options, the math was absolutely brutal. that daily reset compounding on a 2x leveraged ETF during a multi-day crash means you weren't just taking 2x the loss. you were taking 2x the loss on an already diminished base, every single day. that's not something most people understand until they live through it. now you understand it at a cellular level. that education cost you dearly but it is yours forever. here's the thing nobody tells you after a big loss. the instinct is going to be one of two things, either revenge trade to make it back fast, or quit entirely. both are wrong. the revenge trade is how you lose the last third. and quitting means the tuition you just paid was for nothing. what actually works is sitting out for a bit. seriously. a few weeks minimum. let the cortisol come down. your brain is not making good risk decisions right now and that's not a judgment on you, that's just neurochemistry. every single trader who has done this long enough has a story like yours. every one. the ones who survived are the ones who paused, studied what happened, and came back with rules. some things to think about when you're ready: position sizing is everything. if one trade can take 2/3 of your account, the position was too big. full stop. doesn't matter how good the thesis was. even if silver went to $200 tomorrow you'd still need to fix this because the next "sure thing" will come along and the same sizing will eventually blow you up again. leveraged ETFs are not hold-and-hope instruments. AGQ, UVXY, TQQQ, these are tactical tools for days, maybe a week or two max. holding them through volatility events is how the math destroys you even when the underlying eventually recovers. silver is already bouncing. AGQ holders who got wiped don't get that recovery. the macro thesis on silver might still be completely right. industrial demand, EV adoption, supply deficits — none of that changed because of one crash. but being right on the thesis and wrong on the vehicle or the sizing is the most expensive lesson in trading. you were probably right. you just expressed it in a way that couldn't survive the drawdown. your life savings can be rebuilt. i know it doesn't feel that way right now but you clearly have the analytical mind for markets. you identified a real trend. you just need to learn to structure trades that let you be wrong without being wiped out. that's what risk management is. it's not about avoiding losses. it's about making sure losses are survivable. take your time. come back smaller. come back with rules. the market isn't going anywhere. nine lives, friend. you've still got plenty left. 🥁
Big brain move: calls on UVXY
lmfao, my broker doesn't allow me to play with the big kids, 1k on UVXY expecting a closing-day dip on the SPY
The fuck did you buy, UVXY puts???
How far out on the UVXY calls?
Google and NVIDIA are well positioned if AI actually pays off. TSMC and ASML and possibly Hynix and Samsung and Micron are well positioned for sustained hardware demand. Buy one percent of your portfolio as UVXY OTM calls; if there's a crash, they print; if there's not, it's cheap insurance.
with /VXM contracts being available, what's a good reason one would use UVXY to hedge? the only use of UVXY would be to harvest its decay by shorting it whenever it becomes easy to borrow on one's brokerage...
I used to short UVXY and VXX whenever they’d have a spike. So around 1-5 trades a day. Overall I think it’s only worth it if you exit the losing position quickly, but I don’t think it’s sustainable over a prolonged period of time ( 1 year or more) since a volatility spike ends up with you being kicked out of the trade and at a major loss.
I did a UVXY YOLO today. My guy was telling me we attack Iran before then.
Careful about introducing noise using UVXY, it has its own idio risk apart from vix.
Reminds me of my very first trade. I knew nothing about the markets, but I thought Bernie winning the primaries would maybe cause a slight sell off in the markets. I bought UVXY $17c 3/17/20 like three days before the market totally collapsed due to Covid. I'll never be able to top that.
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.
Is anyone getting SQQQ or UVXY tonight?
2 week trade $UVXY leveraged volatility
I just short UVXY when it spikes.
> These funds don't have dividends or high borrow fees, afaik, so no, you're not getting assigned early on calls. Obviously, no divs but these products do have fairly high borrow rates (e.g ~5% on UVXY right now which that's actually on the low side). The early-X aspect is specific to these ETPs, actually, and mostly unrelated to the financing. > I don't think you understand the mechanics or how they apply to this specific conversation about box spreads in these products. You're right, I've never traded a box on any of these because that would be silly. But rest assured, (a) I understand the mechanics of early exercise and funding pretty fucking well since I used to run a corporate derivatives book and (b) more importantly, we do a fair bit of vol RV between VIX ETPs and VIX options so I deal with these specific options on daily basis.
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UVXY Short Volume -> Suspiciously Low Today
You can not buy shares of VIX, it is an index. What you can buy, the VIX-linked ETPs (VXX, UVXY) experience severe, compounding, and consistent decay (often 48%-59% annually)
I think they make electrical sockets. What do I know I studied at UVXY
got into some UVXY weeklies, hope that volatility crush tomorrow https://preview.redd.it/38s4e3k1gphg1.png?width=1102&format=png&auto=webp&s=60e3498e4cab0e85bd9967b37d9056c61f640b41
UVXY seeing some action
When VIX drops to yearly lows, load the boat because the UVXY tsunami is coming.
UVXY, but that's not for beginners.