VXX

AffectionateAd7980

Congrats on that trade, impressive. I'll look into Krishnan's book. I don't really feel sophisticated enough to trade options (ATM). I do like the idea of making small bets with large returns. Even if you lose $ on most, the wins dwarf the losses. I think it was Taleb's *Fooled by Randomness* that first planned that seed in me. VXX might not be a good move, I figure if I missed the timing, at some point volatility would be high enough to produce a profit. Thank you for your comment/reply.

AffectionateAd7980

Thank you for the information. I don't expect VXX to be a long term investment but a way to make a small bet with a large return ***if*** there is a market panic (fear response). If fear wins the battle and we see large movements the contracts held can become quite valuable. It moves very quick and should I do this I would put in autos to sell at preselected point(s). If I could accurately predict the VIX, I'd be very quiet and very rich :-) Still it seems like everyone is both expecting a crash and betting against it at the same time. Seems like when something happens it could cause a big reaction.

tachyonvelocity

Do you know how VXX works, what it holds, market IV levels, how fast theta decays? First of all, VXX is not a measure of current market vol, but what people expect vol to be 30 days from now, because VXX targets a constant duration 30-day VIX. Can you answer what is the current 30-day VIX? The spot VIX is 15.78. The constant duration 30-day VIX is derived from time-weighted front month and 2 month VIX futures. Currently it is 40-60 Dec-Jan VIX. If you calculate a weighted average of this, the 30-day VIX is 18.66. How does this change every day? Since VXX targets a constant duration of 1 month, every day it will sell front month VIX futures to buy second month, or sell Dec VIX to buy Jan, until it holds all Jan by the time Dec futures expire. Then it will do the same and buy Feb. However, because it is selling Dec to buy Jan, the weighted average changes every day without a change in the value of VXX. Selling one contract to buy another does not change the overall NAV. What this does is 30-day VIX can increase without VXX increasing in value. This turns out to result in a "decay" of 10.6% per month as long as the current structure, where Dec is lower than Jan, is sustained. So to bet on a "market fear," what is your target spot VIX, what is your target 30-day VIX, why do you think currently an 18.66 level is too low? How long are you willing to wait, understanding that in 1 1/2 weeks, the 30-day VIX will be over 19 without a change in the value of VXX, basically resulting in a 10% decay per month? If you can answer these questions, then you can start making an informed trade.

AffectionateAd7980

Often if the market sees a strong drop the VIX will see a spike. Easier to hold through a 30% drop, if I have a hedge that shows me a 100% gain. Small bet on VXX which will show a large gain if there is a market panic.

Vivid-Link9806

You could buy the VXX now. The drop will arrive most likely 8-11th and could be similar to April - but no guarantees of course

lessels35

Exactly. The boring SPY/VTI stuff still holds like 80% of the assets for a reason. VXX is wild when you think about it. derivatives of derivatives of derivatives. No wonder people blow up their accounts on that thing.

FrankDrebinOnReddit

The vanilla, passive index ETFs are still there, and from their AUMs that's still where the major ETF money is. > If people are willing to pay for products, companies will provide them My favorite in that Byzantian way is VXX, actually an ETN, that replicates the returns of short-term VIX futures. So synthetic returns based on short-term futures of an index (VIX) that itself is based on short-term options on another index (SPX). And then VXX has an options chain.

Ghostdean

The S&P 500 is overvalued by approximately 1.17 percent as measured by SPY and the percent variance that the VIX (VXX), Commodities (USCI), and high yield bonds (HYG) has put on SPY over approximately the past two months. Below is the chart at the market close on 12/2/2025. https://preview.redd.it/haucpylgyv4g1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcdfb7a99c2e8c27594434f8a7c43ea25e5e17cf

Krammsy

Short UVIX or UVIX puts, roll decay is insane, it's double VXX so you have that working for you, if for any reason you need be long VIX - ITM VIX calls, never long VIX ETF's, the roll decay crushes gains.

funcuddles

Bought 15k VXX on Friday close and wish I bought more 😪

Ghostdean

The S&P 500 is overvalued by approximately 1.45 percent as measured by SPY and the percent variance that the VIX (VXX), Commodities (USCI), and high yield bonds (HYG) has put on SPY over the past two months. Below is the chart. However, there is typically an end of month rally that plays out early into the following month so this overvaluation could continue for a day or two. https://preview.redd.it/nsn9mq67ph4g1.jpeg?width=833&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd139dc0ea8d7b1cfdb602bba97a9c2c41bc4a05

Ghostdean

The following short video contains two months of correlations of non-equity ETFs and their relationships with the S&P 500 (SPY) and concludes with the regression formula for using the VIX (VXX) to predict SPY: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUCHf5o1\_Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUCHf5o1_Q)

funcuddles

Today is a great day for exit liquidity on your long stocks and buying VXX for next week

AffectionateAd7980

Keep in mind that if you are in the US (and some other places) you are working in dollars. It's almost guaranteed at this point that the dollar will continue to fall against a number of other currencies. Debt is too high and too uncontrolled. This also all but guarantees rather painful inflation. Real assets (real estate, stocks, etc) tend to index with inflation. This can make is seem like stocks are doing better than they actually are. I'm a pessimist my nature and have to fight that tendency. If you have a large position in a one or more stocks you can protect the downside using options, or hedge against a major market meltdown with a small position in something like VXX. Current, US policies have certainly been a major boost to markets outside the US, while adding significant economic drag inside the US. This could certainly lead to boons in foreign exchanges. However, the US stock exchange is the largest collection of international companies. I'm not a big fan of crypto because of it's volatility. However, if you play volatility right you can make a lot of $. precious metals are a similar hedge against fiat currencies with less volatility but they tend to move with the stock market. I tend to try to keep a toe in every pond and hope for the best. The higher the risk the smaller the investment. But I'm on the conservative side.

Krammsy

Tally net Vega, use VIX options, or SVIX, VXX, UVXY, UVIX shares as a Vega hedge..... UVIX tends to move maybe 20% more than the VIX despite it's "2x" label, it decays rapidly, as much as 0.5%/day in heavy Contango.

fresh0pl

VXX 100 year low

gamblingman777

Looking like I perfectly timed those VXX calls, how exotic

nyse25

VXX is down -1%

2020Macthedog

VXX

GabFromMars

Hello here’s a 4-week trading plan that actually works and won’t get you expelled from class or bankrupt — with just enough quantum energy to impress your professor and maybe summon Schrödinger. ⸻ 1. Allocate your $100k like an adult (but with vibes): • $50k → normal human stocks (momentum longs) • $20k → QQQ/VTI so your portfolio doesn’t explode • $15k → shorts, because your professor wants to see you suffer • $10k → Daily DCA into a quantum ETF (QBIT/QTUM/WTAI) to make it look like you “believe in the future” • $5k → VXX, aka the panic button Congratulations, you now look like someone who reads financial papers and not just memes. ⸻ 2. The long strategy (aka “please go up I have homework”): Buy strong stocks that everyone else is buying: AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, META, etc. Hold 3–5 days. Sell when you’re up +4 to +8%, or when your soul tells you to. ⸻ 3. The short strategy (because your professor hates you): Short weak stocks only when they bounce. Hold 2–4 days. Cover before you start sweating. ⸻ 4. The quantum DCA (your daily attendance mark): Buy $400 per day of a quantum/AI ETF. This gives you: • automatic transactions, • automatic participation, • and automatic bragging rights: “I invest in quantum computing.” (Not even your professor knows what that means.) ⸻ 5. The VXX strategy (the spice): When volatility is low, buy a little VXX. When volatility spikes, sell it and pretend you planned it. Your classmates will think you understand macroeconomics. ⸻ 6. Weekly routine (easy mode): Monday: rotate longs + shorts like a responsible trader. Tue–Thu: take profits, pretend it was skill. Friday: cut risk so your weekend isn’t ruined. Every day: quantum DCA because quantum particles don’t rest. ⸻ 7. Risk rules (so you don’t fail the assignment): • Max loss: –4% • Max drama: zero • VXX position: small, like your trust in the market • Shorts: quick in, quick out, like your motivation ⸻ Final result: You get: • transactions ✔️ • short sales ✔️ • weekly performance ✔️ • quantum swagger ✔️ • no day-trading crimes ✔️ • no account blow-up ✔️ Your professor will think you’re a genius. In reality, you’re just disciplined and slightly unhinged. Which is… basically trading. ⸻

Economy_Ratio2001

VXX motorboating SPY’s titties right now.

FunkyMonk100k

It’s been 2 hours and SPY has moved like $0.50 but VXX has moved close to a dollar. Whats up?

HelpOuta49er

A friend of mine was long the CS VXX VIX etf and lost 80k overnight

bizstarter

there is not a good answer for your question. Short volatility is a well known risk premia. When everybody is short and something happens they all blow up. Look at what happened with Credit Suisse with the VXX / XIV complex. The etf got liquidated. I will heavily short vol when i identify patterns of stress in the market: i usually wait for a double bottom to sell vol

420_E-SportsMasta

Fuck it I’m all in on $40 VXX March 20 calls

Accomplished_Suit651

Remember that random day a couple years back when VXX spiked from like 28 to 40 cuz some regard at Barclays missed a decimal point in their share allocation? Good times

Krammsy

I was in SVXY that day, back in Aug 2024, I had to nix the short side of a VXX call diagonal to match the drop and came out green. Heck, I started trading XIV when it first came out in 2011, one of the first things I learned was the 80% rule in it's prospectus, kept it hedged at all times.

Made_In_Gyner

lol VXX is red

arounblacksneverelax

VXX at 40 kinda hot

InevitableAd2436

Bought VXX puts. Nothing ever happens

Every_Recover_1766

Super pissed off I can’t add more funds because of the bank holiday. I see SLV and VXX and I cry. Hopefully still some opportunities on Tuesday when the funds clear but I’m going to miss out on like an extra 150 bucks when it all clears green on Monday. Only my positions from Friday are useable.

type_error

VXX is gonna drop faster than your wifes panties

AffectionateAd7980

Are you waiting for the bubble to pop? If you are invested in the bubble are you going to sell at the bottom to buy something else? Are you out of the market waiting for a sale? If you expect a crash you can buy options or something like VXX to hedge against a crash. If you are trying to avoid drama you can invest in non-tech indexes (energy, utilities, REIT, etc.). We are heading toward high inflation with low bond returns (i.e. real loss from fiat currency instruments). USD is going to lose value quickly during the next few years, at least. There is a reason gold is on a tear. My guess is that China will come out of this the best, they make almost everything the world needs. However, investing in China has it's own issues. Who knows maybe AI will save the world, but things don't usually work that way. Wealth consolidation in the hands of a smaller and smaller group of unwise people never leads to long term stability. The real question is how will the instability be manifest. Just remember, Keynes said "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". Market could run fire hot for years more. Keep in mind that more and more stock wealth is concentrated into a smaller and smaller pool of very wealth "true believers". Those numbers you see aren't what a stock is really worth. They are what somebody last bought it for. The value of a stock is only what someone else is willing to pay when you sell it. True believers will pay any price not to miss out on the future. When their faith breaks or is shaken they will accept almost any price to escape their lost dream.

SavedSaver

Not a big player but an old one. LOL. I always have a blended stock, long/short option exposure. I pay close attention to trades that look like won't work out and neutralize them but in general I load up on VXX (as I did in the past few weeks) to hedge the overall position to some degree. VXX is great, it is not a futures with short expiration or an option with rapid decay and the management fee is trivial compared to it's moves. On any up swing my hi Beta stocks jump and outperform the loss on the VXX. I trim the stock positions or hedge at extremes of the vol bands so on a down swing I am less long and re load same or other symbols that give better entry signals. On low priced active stocks I like to sell OM calls and puts beside being long the stock and manage them. Keeps me on my toes but helps me to have a feel for momentum. Some days I ease up when pnl is too good to be true. On Friday my accounts were marginally up and I have added to a few stocks that outperformed. In my experience stocks that stay steady in chaotic conditions will lead on any recovery move.

blarenales

VXX and SQQQ hedge calls printed $$, always hedge guys

smitra00

Short NASDAQ by shorting TQQQ and shorting SQQQ as a hedge. Long VXX and also short VXX as a hedge. Long XLF by shorting FAZ Long TLT by being long TMF Neutral semis by being short SOXS and also short SOXL at the same exposures.

Iamawaffle

Put about 15k on SPY 665p 1/16/26 and VXX 35c 1/16/26, I just got a feeling.

sharpetwo

Stop trading when VIX is about 40 is generally a good rule of thumb. Before you stop, your last trade should be buying a lot of stock. It usually is a (very) profitable trade give it 6 months, especially if nothing was fundamentally broken in the market place but the shock has a path to resolution and the economy not in complete shumbles. If you really have to trade at that moment sell long dated calendar spread (3m/6m or 3m/1y or 6m/1y). But the best trades at that moment were not necessarily the most intuitives: selling puts or generally 20 delta strangle in VIX/VXX was pretty profitable. Vol of vol is also mean reverting and had to go down give it enough time (3m).

blarenales

VXX and SQQQ calls as insurance 

stocksandwatches

What black swan insurance are you buying? I was looking at VXX calls today, but not sure what strike and date to get.

smitra00

Long Dollar/Yen Short Euro/Dollar Long VXX Short TQQQ and short SQQQ,: Net short NASDAQ with SQQQ short as a hedge. Short SOXS and short SOXL: Net neutral position on semis. Short FAZ

penguincheerleader

Covered calls on VXX, I like to think it makes me a less retarded bear.

Rusty_Bicycle

For the past several weeks I’ve just been buying at-the-money calls in precious metal and bond ETFs with 2026 expirations and rolling them up when I’m above 50% profit. Up 64% YTD. I’m tempted by GDX, IBIT, and TQQQ, but at lower prices. And I’m also thinking about VXX calls.

friedbymoonlight

Reddest day in months and VXX +.55

Thisispaartaaa

Yeah man, don't fuck with the vix...UVXY, VXX..just fucking scams

sharpetwo

You’re asking two opposite things at once: fastest and safest. In markets those don’t usually overlap. 30% OTM calls after a pullback are lotto tickets. You need a moonshot move and you’re fighting decay. Shorting VXX calls when VIX is high sounds good, but timing mean reversion is brutal and you can get blown out if vol spikes again. You need some hedge on that position. LEAPS or staged call buying is fine as directional bets, but that’s not a safe double. That’s just leverage with a time cushion. In fact, you can still lose quite a bit depending on the path: the stock can go up but if IV was really high, that will impact your pnl. Overall, buying the dip (which is what all your positions are) is not a bad strategy. You need to enhance the "safe" aspect of your strategy to make it work. I would say that a combination of selling VXX calls and buying some SPX tails can get you there. But you will still need a good view on the vol surfaces to know which call to sell and which puts to buy. Good luck.

iron_condor34

Selling VXX calls when the vix is "high" is no where near safe.

No-Improvement3164

Even VXX was green today

Beloved_Mango

VXX has entered chat

MossfonBVI

VXX holding up

Mengs87

What would you buy as a cheap Armageddon trade, say within the Oct-Nov crashy season? I was thinking of VXX but the IV on the calls is sky high. Calls on SPXS?

friedbymoonlight

Happened to me once with VXX, I was terrified because it can be super volatile. Monday morning, I bought cheap otm calls to protect on the up side. Then I covered the shares at a small loss. In hindsight, I could have waited 3 hours and made a profit. But I really hated being in an accidental position.

fresh0pl

VXX 100 year low

No-Improvement3164

VXX 52 week low. Sensational!

Thisispaartaaa

those fucking vix futures tracking etf's are complete utter garbage...just stay away from the vix altogether....if you want to short the market, buy a market short like spxs (3x inverse leveraged S&P etf) or something like that. 3x might be a hair volatile...you can find 2x leveraged and just 1x inverse....depends on your level of risk. VXX and UVXY are just a waste of time in my opinion.

CapDris116

Why is VXX down if the vix is up? Can someone explain to me?

Pools4Adventures

Why VXX moves sideways?

Pools4Adventures

Cant read chart so i bought VXX calls

Pools4Adventures

Herer we are. Chat GPT says Spy puts and VXX calls today

Pools4Adventures

Chat GPT says Puts and VXX calls

thethrifter

SPY up, GLD up, REIT UP. Mkaes sence. But VXX up as well?. I need an autist to explain as this seems like covered cals are free money.

Sick0h

Someone help. I understand leveraged ETFs and shit, but what I don’t understand is what UVIX is tracking. It doesn’t give daily 2x VIX but VIX futures, but what the fuck if the ticker for VIX futures. Is VXX the closest/one of the correct VIX futures it essentially tracks.

sharpetwo

That double tap is not really two bullets in the same chamber but turning your position into a spread. However you have to be aware of a few things starting with synthetic position 1/ Buy call + sell put = synthetic long stock. You have not doubled your upside, you have just recreated linear exposure with all the downside. 2/ Buy put + sell call = synthetic short stock. Same story. Now if you space your strike a little, you are now building a risk reversal, which in some instances, can be a very good idea. They are powerful when skew is lopsided. Think equity indices: puts trade rich (everyone hedges with them), calls trade cheap (fewer natural buyers). So if you are bullish, you can sell that juicy put premium and recycle it into a cheap call and suddenly your convexity costs almost nothing. Flip it the other way around and you can build cheap downside hedges by selling upside calls everybody wants and funding your put. And you can do that accross tickers if and only if they react to the same underlying event obviously. For instance - selling expensive VXX calls to buy "cheaper" SPY puts. That is where the “double tap” makes sense: you are not just layering trades, you are exploiting skew mispricing. If you are just doing it on a single stock without paying attention to skew, you are probably just paying spreads and adding the cruel idiosyncratic risk. On indices with persistent put skew, it is one of the cleanest ways to lever up a directional view while keeping risk/reward aligned. Good luck

MCODYG

I buy 65-75 delta puts on VXX about 120 days out and roll around day 75. Works quite well

sharpetwo

Let's go back to some basics and make sure we are aligned: In contango (front IV < back IV), the short option you sold (shorter dte) tends to overstate realized volatility and decays toward reality faster than the long back option (longer dte). That carry is where the edge lies and you can think of the back as a hedge against sudden rise in vol. In backwardation (front IV > back IV), short-dated vol tends to underperform because once again, it must converge toward realized from above. Selling that is dangerous, and long calendars (yes it is confusing, but technically speaking a long calendar is long front and short back) are less attractive. That is why funds like VXX bleed in contango regimes: they constantly sell cheap stuff to buy more expensive stuff in the back. In SPY options you can be on the other side of that, clipping theta as front IV converges toward realized while your long vega still holds. So back to your question: rolling calendars is not like being long VXX in the sense that you are not condemned to structural decay. You are, however, exposed to the shape of the vol curve. If contango relaxes (front lifts, back holds), your calendar wins. If the curve flattens because front vol spikes harder than the back, your calendar loses. In your case it seems like you want to be long a calendar because you are anticipating a spike: look at the SPY term structure, and even the VIX term structure. Both of them strongly disagree with you at the moment, and structurally a long calendar (long front IV) will bleed as long as realized doesn't spike and tilt the term structure at least flat. The cleanest way to express your idea right now, would be to be long VXX (once again, that is litterally what they do: buy front month VX futures and sell the back). Open a chart of VXX right now .. it may not be a great idea. It was much better when the term structure was flat and uncertainty was all over the place. Good luck.

IronyElSupremo

Easiest is buy an “ESG” fund. Calvert funds have the longest track record since the 1980s for [iirc] religious objectors but probably “active” management with their “non-vice” approach. Still Calvert are the long term players, but there’s various ESG-screen index ETFs at mostly iShares (too many to list here, but XVV, USXF, and DMXF are relatively low cost) .. but Vanguard released 2 recently. Thing with ESG is the companies have responded to them, so you get big oil companies but not a small solar company that can’t afford the HR. Another idea is direct indexing (Fidelity) where you hold the individual stocks .. screening the holdings of a top 50 (XLG) ETF or even top 100 global (ishares IOO) ETF against the top ESG large cap holdings (use VXX, USXF, DMXF). The late Jack Bogle theorized buying and holding such a DIY index could slightly beat the S&P 500 over time. Another idea is go with momentum index ETFs (Invesco’s SPMO is has the best returns) and rebalance annually. You can say you’re “selling” any problematic stocks; probably pair with something like low cost Vanguard or iShares core bonds for stability (iShares even has an ESG bond index .. basically big bank and Treasury bonds). May even be some green lending. Could combine the last 2 approaches too.

Agile-Lingonberry704

look at Lucid. I think VXX as well

General_NEARD

Looking at the 5 year chart for VXX, it's coming down from a value 2000 to where it's at currently. It inherently depreciates a bit if the market goes sideways or up. Imagine have put LEAPs on it from 2020... what a ridiculous possible gain that would have been.

JayRoo83

Closed the SPXS/UVIX/VXX shares pre market, will close the puts at open It's nice when your day is done before it technically starts

Zauberstaby

Also, I had a better stomach to the lows this year, most recently, and not to sell, and plug my nose every now and then and buy when others were selling. Which my margin would be up anyways at that point. Gotta grab some deals! It helps owning VXX UVXY UVIX at that time, and then switch to SVXY SVIZ ZIV. Made some profits. ZiV is an interesting one. Pays about 24% dividend equally distributed to each month. I'm not up on that one. Or on IIPR. I've owned that one for a while, just like AEM.

Valuable-Mission9203

VXX and UVXY are just ETPs over VIX futes, and you can read the CBOE paper on how VIX is built, it's just 30-day variance, pulled directly from the SPX options IV smile. Your proposed position has high compounding daily contango bleed from rolling the futes and rebalancing, and low liquidity. SPX/SPY options let you get the same trade long vol convexity . Consider a long LEAP put financed with rolling bull put spreads, cheap convex long vega with payoff on any spikes in IV mostly divorced from delta, with risk tightly bound to a narrow range about the short strikes at expiry on the front leg. UVXY/VXX persist because they’re simple to trade and well marketed, despite being structurally poor long-term holdings. Long positions mostly subsidize the APs and the sponsor through roll decay and fees. Even in backwardation, when the roll may briefly favour longs, the effect is fleeting and never offsets the product’s long-term structural drag.

OptionsJive

Because with VXX and UVXY you can build unique asymmetric, inversely correlated risk profiles that you just can't replicate in SPY/SPX.

EdvardMunch

about lost all my money past month on puts, this week decided to take my tiny bit of cash to hop into VXX, perfect move

doirrr

49k position on VXX calls incoming second week of September

JayRoo83

Probably going to regret this but adding to my SPXS/VXX/UVIX position 30% in on that, 70% cash still

Relevant_Pepper7

VXX calls

OptionsJive

Not really. Buying VIX calls has the same issue. I love VXX/UVXY broken-wing butterflies and ratio spreads. You can also synthetically get long volatility using calendar spreads on equity ETFs.

JayRoo83

I feel like I'm gonna regret not funneling more money into VXX/UVIX while VIX is below 15

Nghtmare-Moon

VXX and SPY are both green… I’ve seen this before

friedbymoonlight

I remember when it took a pair of big brassy testicles to be a market maker. There was no internet, no financial networks— just the mad badassary of throwing capital into the animal spirits of an inefficient market. What have we become? Ants! Ants, I say! Awaiting the moves of emasculated whales to set the lead? I think not! No! I will strike my own way like the greats of yore! >! 3 x VXX 36 C 8/29 !<

AffectionateAd7980

That's not really the way to think about it. Stocks move in a very jerky motion. If you miss the top 10 up days on any stock you miss 90% of the profit. This is why timing the market is so difficult. It sounds like what your real question is about fear. How do I preserve capital while still insuring profit. How do I avoid the pain of lose and what might have been. People are often bad traders because they can't control their emotions, leading them to buy and sell at exactly the wrong times. I have exactly the same problem and it only gets worst as your account balances grow. First, at some point you will lose money, accept that as fact. Don't buy things you aren't willing to hold or get out of with an automatic stop lose (i.e. decide up front what you are willing to lose). This is why so many experts recommend buying indexes then not touching them. The balance will go up and down ... you hope when you need it that it will be up. Don't invest what you can't afford to lose and don't get stuck on the idea that you can't afford to lose anything. It sounds like you are in pretty good shape. If you are close to retiring, you might want to move to a fund that is balanced between stocks and bonds, bonds becoming a larger part of the asset the closer to your expected retirement date. Make sure you understand the tax ramifications of selling positions in your brokerage account. The idea is to control risk, not maximize profit. After the election last year I bought a good bit of VXX (meant to index the VIX, i.e. volatility/risk). I didn't do it to make a profit, I did it to sleep at night. I set three progressively larger auto-sells. If all those hit I will make a lot of $ ... but I will have lost a lot of $ because the only time those sells will hit is when the market is in some sort of panic. My other stocks will likely be killed, but I'll make enough to not worry until my other stocks come back. If nothing bad ever happens then I'll probably be able to sell it at a later time for somewhere around what I paid (i.e. I will likely lose a bit due to inflation and lost opportunity). I'm NOT telling you do to this. What I'm telling you is to find ways to make inexpensive bets that balance whatever risk you perceive. Diversity into a number of areas. If you fear the falling dollar buy a bit of gold or Swiss bonds. Small hedges that provide protection while you wait for your equities to grow. The higher the risk the smaller the bet. The goal isn't to become so rich you don't have to worry, because that amount doesn't exist. The more you have the more you worry about it. The goal is to have enough to live well and sleep well.

Relevant_Pepper7

Have some for one week on VXX waiting for the 21 peak

tropicalia84

VIX below 15, vol ETFS like UVIX, VXX, UVXY all at all time lows - there is no premium.

nyse25

Do VIX ETN's count? You can trade some of them like VXX but not VIXY even though they derive from the same instrument , /VX30.

OmgJosh925

I haven’t gone to the dentist since before Covid. Mostly both because I’m lazy and I’ve never had a cavity. Then my family dentist died so I go to another and they say I had 8. It’s been well over 5 years and no aches or anything to infer progression of cavitation. Dentists have the highest suicide rates because most are scammers that can’t live with themselves. Get an electric toothbrush and floss and you’re good. OP, convince your family to follow your position on those VXX calls. HELOC and yolo everything in the bloodline so you don’t fall into the trap

Pax-Britanica

This ninja saying calls ON VXX. He ain’t wrong at all, not one bit. Those are going to be your money makers ma little regard

obeysanic420

holy fk im dying OP gona put that 2 bands to VXX calls and go back to 0

anddocallmeshirely

Fair enough. Best advice in that case is to become some sort of dental criminal, breaking into nursing homes, hitting geriatrics with nitrous, stealing their gold fillings and prescription pills, selling that shit instead alongside your bussy behind the nearest Wendy’s and of course full porting all of your earnings into UNH to hopefully at least pay the principle of your current loans with dividends… Or maybe those VXX calls will work out I guess, I don’t fuckin know

kcyc2123

Huge $VXX calls getting bought…40c https://x.com/salmaogs/status/1956402342296719405?s=46&t=eBcWtMH8ZusdmKUkgtRuag

SavedSaver

I have VXX longs $1 higher, even few days of drop in the market may make them fly make them fly. Look at the weekly chart.

General_NEARD

Yeah, I have some VXX put credit spreads 41/40 that I picked up when VXX had dipped to 41.10 for the first time. I thought there was no way it would drop below 40 with all the pending data this week... but here we are. lol...

SavedSaver

I am long hi beta stocks so while I am underwater on VXX it's not critical yet

friedbymoonlight

VXX keeps chopping between 39,40 and 39,52.  It’s going to break in some direction 

tendiemountain

VIX plays are really interesting. We know something bad will happen and VIX will spike eventually. That will pass and it will come back down. All you have to do is buy when the VIX is low, sell when it is high and short when it hits the top. Really simple. Yes. Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. It is important to understand how the VIX works. It is based on futures contracts and is very complex. All of the VIX ETFs balance different contracts to represent the VIX as best as they can and what they are trying to do. Sure, some of them are close but none of them are perfect. I wish I could explain it better/beyond that but I am just a regard. You have to read up on it if you are going to play the VIX/UVXY/VXX/etc. Then there is the aspect of leveraged stocks. This is extremely important to understand how they are rebalanced. In the right environment, buying leveraged stocks are a goldmine. For example, this last run up since the tariff announcements. It works differently when things begin to chop because on how they are balanced. A quick example would be QQQ and TQQQ. Why aren't we all invested in TQQQ? Stocks will go up. 3x leverage is a sure win? Look at Nov 2021, the height of COVID recovery, QQQ is \~411 and TQQQ is \~92. Fast forward to today, QQQ is 575 and TQQQ is 92.5. If you had invested money in QQQ, you would have gotten a huge gain. TQQQ? Absolutely flat. This is because of the rebalancing and decay. Again, I'm just a regard and this is above my pay grade as well, but it isn't near as simple as it appears at first glance.

General_NEARD

Still holding? VXX got drained on Friday's steady rise. I'm thinking Tuesday's pending inflation report will give it a rise again end of day Monday and maybe through the week with additional economic reports coming out.

-A-7

To do what I think you’re looking to do, you’re going to want to buy derivatives off VXX or other similar products. Not the actual VIX itself.

TheRealSlobberknob

The index itself. I use Robinhood, but before they added the index, I used VXX.

alone-in-the-chat

Is VXX ok?

XXLepic

Time for VXX VIX buying 😂

XXLepic

IM ALL IN ON VIX. VXX. EASIEST MONEY ON EARTH. Profit from tariffs just like April catch. Easiest money ever.