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iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX Short-Term Futures ETN
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Returns on leveraged securities vs non-leveraged (UVIX vs VXX)
Best ways to profit from market crashes/downswings? Options on volatility ETP/ETF?
PROOF the Fed is manipulating the VIX
So i have this friend who thinks he has a new and winning strategy....
Long-awaited Case against beloved $VXX is finally here!
Straddle VXX option play today (quadruple/triple witching day)?
Question about Option "Market" sell orders when not enough bids.
Volatility at a five year low
I think I'm done trading options. Here are my opinions. Am I wrong? Civil conversation welcome.
Barclays bank likely behind most recent JPY/USD exchange rate rigging
Is VXX a great chance for short-squeezing?
"BULL TRAP RALLY" is coming...!!! Are you prepared for Jackson hole.
It's time to long the VIX; $VIXY supporting Thesis.
So what is it that's not priced into the market? How bad is it?
VXX Chart; People betting on Volatility soon. Are they going to block you guys from BUYing the VXX again? I already jumped in this morning, too f**ing late to block me! But if you can't buy, how will I make tendies?
Since we're just throwing around charts, isn't the VXX kinda low for how scary things should feel right now?
VXX lotto Calls but where the chances of it hitting are actually almost guaranteed?
I Dream of Bulls and Bears Frolicking: Is there a WSB Flavored Straddle We Can All Agree Tastes Great
I Dream of Bulls and Bears Frolicking: Is there a WSB Flavored Straddle/Strangle We Can All Agree Tastes Great?
VXX explosion this week, still no new issuance
VXX still broken. Shares locked, vulnerable to blow up next week
PSA: VXX will be, at some undetermined time, dropping in price to correct for Barclay's error. Advise is to not touch it. (VIXY is okay, not affected).
Press Release: Barclay's clarifies halt of share issuances for ETNs (VXX, OIL)
🥚 Yield Curve. Stagflation. Fed Rate Hikes. World War. Oil Prices. Pandemic. End of Stimulus. Evergrande. Margins. Unwinding. Rigged Markets. Fake Markets. Bubble burst. Bear Markets. 🥚
So you are telling me, I could have gotten all my $50k loss (short option play gone wrong+stupid loss avoidance) repaid by BarCap if I had just kept the VXX a little while longer? Anyone with some wrinkles that can explain this to me?
What happened to my Call Option? I am open to anything guys. It went over 3000%.
Barclays Broke $VXX | DD & Trading Opportunities
Most Overlooked Opportunity of 2022 | $VXX
VXX and VIX price imbalance ~ can someone help me out? I think it's the market recognizing that a bearish period is coming to stay
Barclay's Suspended VXX ETN Share Creation - Implications and Trades?
Help me I’m a retard when it comes to ETFs!! What is the difference between VIXY and VXX?
Barclays Suspends Until Further Notice Further Sales and Issuances of [VXX and OIL]
Step 1: Open Brokerage | Step 2: Take Money out of Losing Positions | Step 3: Invest in VXX
VXX is going to break a lot higher!! Mark my words
Stalking the Bear: VXX weakness not leading to market strength?!?!
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Holding Gold and VXX in case 🍊 fires JP or we get a classic weekend dust up
As someone who has $100K in VXX right now, if that happens, I’ll meet you behind the Wendy’s dumpster simply as a thank you.
Probably means VXX or similar etfs.
I got stop-loss out off my NFLX yesterday which locked in profit. Thank Fuckin Gawd! Thinking Monday get 7/11 VXX 49calls, wait for the Tariff Fiasco selloff and then use $$$ to buy NFLX 7/25 1400c and META 760c Sitting out tomorrow and watching Mango & Congress fight while I day drink sounds better than sipping coffee and messaging with you dorks
VIX rising 5% and VXX falling 1% is not a situation I understand.
VXX & UVXY both being greens while SPY is +.52% mean we are about to plummet into oblivion by close
VXX. Wait for Trump to do something miraculously stupid. Profit. Put in SVIX. Ride it down. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Just put for me, but when VIX is below 16 you can look at VXX covered calls as one of the safest plays ever for a 1 to 10 percent gain.
How do you use VXX as an income stream ?
I hear ya! Im holding VXX right now. Down about 5% but as u know that changes quickly. If I lose, I lose. Im in the camp poo is going to hit the fan in the near future.
Who’s got VXX calls bc shit is about to get wild.
there was a time during covid-era where i had VXX calls open at 400% gain and disintegrate to a 50% loss in 30 minutes. I was in a meeting and came back to to shambles.
You may not be able to trade VIX futures options. Brokers don't offer to trade and clear all listed products available on the exchanges they offer trading on. So in power etrade, you should see the VIX options chain has listed products, quotes, etc. But when you search something like /VXQ5 to see the VIX futures (this one is August), the futures option chain may have funky quotes and not be tradable. Regarding the confusion, futures accounts and securities accounts are separate. So if you trade VIX or SPX index options or SPY ETF options or AAPL stock options, those are generally subject to securities rules and are carried in your securities accounts alongside other securities like stocks, ETFs/ETNs, treasuries, CDs, corporate bonds, and so on. If you trade futures like VX outright futures or NQ futures options or ES futures calendar spreads, that is carried in your futures account and is generally subject to commodities rules. If you could trade VX futures options, that would occur in this account, too. Separate accounts also means separate margin. If you trade VIX calls and hedge with VX futures, you're going to have one margin requirement for your VIX positions in your securities account and another requirement for your futures account (ouch). For better or worse, you can use exchange-traded products to get exposure to futures or other derivatives trades in your securities account, eg, you can use the VXX exchange-traded note (in your securities account) to own a share in a fund holding short-term VIX futures (however it's common for these to be margined at 100% instead of 30% or 50%). To make it more confusing, retail brokers may have futures departments who are also responsible for trade, margin, and permissions questions for index options (...products which are not carried in the futures account). Part of trading is understanding these differences and shifting risk between the accounts (and therefore products). Different products (and also exchanges and clearinghouses) also means different notional sizes/multipliers, different settlement times/procedures, different market centers (eg, different costs/liquidity), different clearing procedures and so on. VIX options can be particularly confusing for determining margin (special margin rules, especially for calendarized spreads) and moneyness (relationship to VIX futures), but the main point here is that you can expect VIX options to be carried in the securities account and VX futures and futures options (if tradable) to be carried in the futures account.
Au contraire, you can gamma scalp by shorting VXX, UVXY or UVIX or long SVIX, it's usually a very boring gradual upward slope with periodic explosions, April was insane. The reason I do that is that very often the VIX explodes late night when you can't sell the option. I do the same with SPX and a few commodities.
Second wave heading to Iran $VIX to the moon $VXX
Dammit sold my VXX weekly calls on Tuesday
I knew this since yesterday but why didnt i buy oil stocks or why did i sell VXX 1dte at a loss...
Bought OXY, VXX, and GDX in the 24-hour market.
TLT, SLV, GD, VXX, USO. War time boys.
VXX hasn’t moved in an hour, there’s is no way this shit stays green today
VXX not budging is all I need to know
VXX didn’t even move during that green nonsense. We getting rugged
Short VXX with stop loss set at 100. Close and reopen with profits reinvested when VXX drops significantly relative to the VIX futures (you then choose a proportionally lower stop loss). You can earn about 50% or more per year this way.
A whole lot really. Every respectable economist is predicting a recession in the second half of the year including several dozen Nobel prize winning economists. Dollar is dropping, gold is rising, personal debt is rising, debt ceiling expected to go up $5 trillion, us credit downgraded by Moody's, no trade deals yet. 30 year Treasury bonds near 5% and Fed is buying up debt to prevent a full blown crisis. Economic data is looking screwy... Economists are having trouble trusting that inflation cooled right after Trump implemented tariffs and jobs are up after receiving historic high unemployment claims. And we could get black swanned any day if Japan or China unloads their US debt in retaliation to Trump's lies and bogus accusations. And if Trump's BBB can't pass Congress, the corporate tax rate could go from 21 to 35% which could easily tank the market. since the tariff pause, the market has just kept going up and up and most experienced traders are shocked this mechanical rally cleared all major SMAs post death cross while market fundemtals are still shit. Really not a great time to open a large long position here. I think you'd be better off simply buying VXX below $50 and waiting for recession fears to trigger a 50+% spike.
VXX and chill. Only a matter of time https://preview.redd.it/7co8082wcj5f1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c8647ca34b2b44607789c029d96e99afaf0f1b9
SPY down over $2 from the lows and VXX/UVXY/VIX making low of day lmfaoooooooooo Bears getting DP'd by dip buyer sand vol crush
VXX, UVXY, VIX still cratering About to have a massive pump very soon
VXX isn’t even green yet. We are gonna slide hard today
VXX dumping with SPY is weird AF
VXX about to go green when QQQ is .45% up? Yeah, this is rug set up for sour hour. We couldn’t even break opening
Trying to decide whether to roll these June calls - they are actually on VXX, but holding the cash settled ones as well, so… they are expensive.
I just added the QQQ’s and SPY for the fall. Thinking of rolling VXX calls out as well (have VIX that expiry,) but it’s expensive and I’ll be annoyed if there is a spike….
Having trouble using inverse ETFs to hedge. Or perhaps accepting the reality of “rebalancing.” Maybe going back to long-dated puts and VXX calls at 2ish effective gearing….
fuck i loaded up on Puts and VXX calls
Thanks will buy $100k VXX
I actually learned about this stock because I typed VXX wrong lol
Instructions unclear, calls on VXX
Buying some VXX for insurance for over the weekend might not be a bad idea.
VXX & UVXY waking up again. This shit is about to get skippy
97% of my account shorting NASDAQ, 3% shorting VXX. so atleast if i become homeless i can buy a beer.
Annoying (have VXX calls.)
VXX staying entirely flat through this melt up is telling me everything I need to know
volatility index drops a full pt and SPY just acting like nothing happened, this is so fucked its probably going to dump. At this rate VXX would have to dump 3 whole pts for SPY to reach 579. Make this shit make sense
There are two green things in my watchlist. One is VXX and the other is \_\_\_
Probably start selling SPXS, SQQQ, VXX, etc calls with nearer expiries. Holding longer dated and various puts. Writing a few calls/puts if something blows up or plummets…
This is going to the the easiest short of the year. Look at the chart since the Liberation Day. It's time for a pull back. PLTR Leap poots UNH July poots VXX June calls
Fav kinda day when VXX is up and so is SPY
Fav kinda day when VXX is up and so is SPY
VXX up on a Sunday night, will be sleeping like a baby
I'm long GLD, VXX, TLT through vertical spreads. Long SPY shares, Short SPY through vertical spreads. Have a few oil companies I have short puts on. Intraday I'll be scalping futures. Looking back at 2011 and 2023 downgrades boosted volume and volatility. Overall bearish reactions with sideways choppiness or bearish movement short term. I'm looking to stay quick on my feet and bias my trading to the downside.
I get why my original comment got downvoted. It probably came off as a hindsight flex. But I did read the thread, and I actually agree with the OP’s broader point: sentiment on here flips hard, and that emotional whiplash is something I try to trade around. I wasn’t trying to brag about calling it perfectly. I held long through most of the decline, but I had cash on hand and used it to buy when sentiment hit peak fear. Then I fully exited all my long positions during the euphoric bounce. On the following dip, I rotated back into long delta. I wasn’t trying to call tops or bottoms, just responding to sentiment extremes while staying flexible. I’ve got short puts and put credit spreads on energy, finance, rare earths, and metals. Long volatility via call spreads in VXX. Some protection with put debit spreads in SPY. SPY shares are running with a trailing stop. I’m still net delta positive, but I’m treating this bounce like it could be a dead cat unless proven otherwise. As for the “last 4 months were wasted” comment, I see it differently. Those months let me reposition, rotate exposure, and reduce risk. That time wasn’t wasted. It was opportunity if you were active. Anyway, appreciate the pushback. Tone got lost in my first comment, but the idea was just to show how sentiment-based trading can work if you stay unemotional and tactical.
VIX or VXX at 80 usually means a pullback soon. Buying puts can work but is costly. Put credit spreads are safer to limit risk. Volatility can stay high, so be careful and size positions wisely.
Ok this idea is a month late, but what’s the best way to profit when the VIX or VXX hits 80 like it did in April. Puts on VXX? Liquidity doesn’t seem to be there. What’s the move?
Did you continue with this VXX puts strategy and did it make you rich over the last two months?
hrmm last 10 mins pamping VXX hard rofl
VXX and SPY in the green. You know what time it is lmao
Exa-fkng-ctly !! I am 150% sure that will happen but can not help run the math I bought 100 p55 on VXX on Wed, sold half on Fri and the other half at 10 AM today. Had i held until end of day (or likely tomorrow) I would have been 30k up !!!
Buy VXX and wait for the next stupid thing to rattle markets. Sell after you double your money, wait for everyone to go "this is fine," then buy back in. There's at least 2-3 more doubling events coming in the next year.
VXX has been my bread winner since Sept. 1500 shares with weekly covered calls. Netting me about 50k over the life I held it in option premiums. Shares were called away in April.
Just don’t fight the momentum! It’s nice to buy on a morning dip. Pre market and it’s all green and VXX is red grab those spy calls on the morning dip. The setup is not always there so don’t force it!
I'm buying VXX calls right before JPow speech
If you worked for a Major Firm 2 things would be apparent: 1- you would never be putting into print thoughts. 2- you would NEVER divulge any trade you may or maynot have processed-Right at close we got this unusual VXX call order.
Wouldn’t it just be smart to buy VIX or VXX calls now that IV is relatively low? Option prices seem very cheap right now. Thinking of doing a leap trade with August expiry.
we're all getting greedy again too greedy and that'll be the top. calls until then. then VXX all the way. then inverse sentiment.
It’s not outmaneuvering market volatility. It’s placing a short side on a stock at a price where you are okay with selling it at. No one is claiming to be fully volatility proof over market Armageddon. Obviously if market crashes, most equities will fall as well. But you can hedge against that risk by buying strong securities (equities or commodities) that don’t follow the market to a high degree, but also have solid balance sheets, cash flows, and in-line PE ratios. Long story short, buy stocks that you love for the business they do. Don’t buy stocks because everyone else is buying them, or buy them to chase “fat premiums” Have a sturdy portfolio of equities and commodities you plan on holding for years to come, and then collect “rent” off the prices you are okay with selling the stocks at on a weekly basis. This is smart and efficient investing Obviously implementing other short term hedges like a VXX spread, or even put hedging is great. But this strategy is for the hands-off investor that checks his portfolio once or twice a week. Most people are not professional traders, and they should not pretend to be However, EVERYONE has the potential to be a smart investor
VXX puking rn all you need to know how investors think volatility is over - we’re going to ATH Don’t get caught slipping. Point CAWK to SKY and BUY
was about 55% cash, moving 10-15% of that into $GLD and $VXX (1x vix futes)
Roller coaster? Fucking parabolic arcs is more like it. FFS the VXX has outperformed SPY by 45%!
Have you seen VXX or UVXY today? Made a brick in 30min of trading
- The U.S. economy contracted by 0.3% in Q1 2025, marking the first decline since 2022, driven by a surge in imports and decreased government spending. Jamie Dimon said that a recession is a "best case scenario", ultimately looking at how bad the selloff will be today. The broader market is grappling with uncertainties stemming from trade tensions and tariff implementations, and the contraction news. Might take a minor VXX long as well
- The U.S. economy contracted by 0.3% in Q1 2025, marking the first decline since 2022, driven by a surge in imports and decreased government spending. Jamie Dimon said that a recession is a "best case scenario", ultimately looking at how bad the selloff will be today. The broader market is grappling with uncertainties stemming from trade tensions and tariff implementations, and the contraction news. Might take a minor VXX long as well
The leveraged etfs move big and fast, really have to watch them. SH isn’t. It’s nice and slow, just inverse SP500 I think the Vix might be helpful, like VXX, and VIXM. There are a few. The volatility seems sure to wax and wane quite a bit for a while, seems to me. Absolutely diversify. Everyone is affected by our economy but lots of markets are performing better than we are and are a good value. The Vix can spike quickly when the volatility is high. For example, VXX might be trading in $70s , volatility in the “high” zone and it will suddenly spike to $90 and subside quickly, so I maintain an open limit sell order for partial shares in hopes of catching the spike and have done so once already, at $90. This crisis taught me not to neglect international diversity. For years my Europe etf seemed to just lie there, and my em had scary china gov rug pulls all the time. I’m upping international a lot.
Options on VXX/SVIX/UVXY - options on an ETF based on futures of the volatility of the S&P500. More derivatives than calculus lol
This chop is sickening, bring back VXX 60+ 
Thinking through the numbers I'm tempted to start buying VXX any time the index goes below 38.
VXX has been pinned $67 despite us gapping up over 2% after hours Do with that what you will.
The fact VXX has stayed more or less parked since 4am tells me all I need to know about this rally. Buying puts at open is free money
I keep inverting and winning. On a very small scale as I have almost no money. But scalping a daily basis is working ok so far. Market is selling off? Buy calls around 2pm. Market in full rally mode? Puts it is. 2pm I'll buy VXX calls or SPY puts
Well in this case, I was trading VXX. There were trade halts on and off that day for many equities. So I was told the sale went through during a halt. I believe the rep who told me, still going to verify myself. My problem I kept explaining to Schwab wasn't the busted trade after I read hours of FINRA regs as I realized busted a trade after settlement is perfectly legal.....it's that the contract went into my account at the price I sold for. So a cost basis of $215 vs the $50-81 dollar range of contracts I sold. Which took 5 days to get corrected. That's the part I don't understand, that sure if the trade is cancelled...how do I now own a contract at well over 100% what I paid for it?
Depends on the day. Talk to the same trade resolution manager at Schwab and it's gone from erroneous pricing to extreme market conditions. A different rep dug for me and said at the time of sale VXX was halted. It had halts that day. I still need to personally find out if it was halted at the time of my trade which is easy to look up. But it was busted after settlement. And the 50 dollar contract I sold went near end of the day back into my account at the price I sold it for....215 dollars. It took about 5 days to get the cost basis adjusted back to what it should be which was then 81 dollars.... Don't ask. Just seeing alot of it on Reddit lately, especially on the Schwab sub so seeing how many people did get busted that day
Are you prepared for infinite losses? Because losses aren’t capped to your original investment with futures. (I supposed your broker will margin call you, then close your acct at a certain point, so maybe not infinite). But how deep in the hole will you be then? Also, don’t buy VXX puts unless SPY is actively mooning (like that 11% green candle the other day). It’s insanely difficult to time VXX puts correctly, and there’s extra premium on the contracts to account for the futures which trade way lower than the fund. Personally, cheap OTM puts on QQQ dated 45~ days out would be the best move. Keep the position small. Take profits as you go. Reload after bounces (wait for consolidation and if you’re still bearish then re-enter once the price has broken the same previous support two or three times.
It's called VXX dailies, just make sure you sell positions after an hour and wait for the next announcement.
Stop getting frustrated you either get good at this or stay poor. When you see VXX spike and stay there it’s too late to buy options. IV is just as important as the stock going up or down when it comes to options. Buy monthly’s if you are bullish short term on a stock and don’t go all in at once, give yourself the ability to double down. Try to limit big plays to once or twice a year, don’t force anything. If you are not sure what the next play is hold cash and patiently wait for the next opportunity. Or just DCA into a couple indexes and work two jobs to try to retire at 45 maybe.