TVIX News and Press, VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN From 05/13/19

Market Intro CNBC: 2:41PM EST Sector SPDRs US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) are giving back the victory lap from last Friday's massive rebound, as averages head lower (about 3% on the S&P earlier in the session). Spot VIX got a healthy dose of revenge after the into-the-w...

We didn't know what we thought we knew. As far as market participants understood it, a Sino-US trade pact was a done deal. Last year's escalations gave way to a steady stream of recycled headlines about "progress" in 2019. Talks are always "constructive", according to Steve Mnuchin. China i...

Top gainers:  TVIX   +25.1% . YANG   +22.2% . SOXS   +20.5% . UVXY   +20.1% . FNGD   +19.1%  . More news on: VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN, Direxion Daily FTSE China Bear 3x Shares ETF, Direxion Daily Semiconductor 3x Bear Shares ETF, ...

On Tuesday, May 7 th , U.S. markets freaked out because of the fear that there might be a trade war looming. The NASDAQ ( QQQ ) dropped by a bit more than 2% and the VIX jumped from about 15 to a daily high of 21.5, before settling back to close at about 20. The near-term options, represented ...

After the significant correction that took stock prices appreciably lower during the final three months of 2018, stocks made back all of their losses over the first four months of 2019. The E-Mini S&P 500 futures contract rose to a slightly higher high at the end of April as the Fed backed...

The S&P 500 closed within one point of September 2018 all-time last Friday. You'd have to think "everyone" is watching what happens this week. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pullback here since the S&P 500 usually takes a few tries to poke through a longer-term high. Market Bread...

Market Intro Econoday Economic Calendar: Q1 GDP Yada, yada, or so respond US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ ) to the strong Q1 GDP report, though Russell 2000 ( IWM ) is up about three quarters of a percent in Friday trade. CNBC: Fri 1:52PM EST Even the 10-Yr US Treasury Note ( IEF )...

In Q4, fear reasserted itself as the dominant cognitive principle. It wasn't the first time that's happened post-crisis, but it was one of the more acute episodes of insanity becoming contagious. The US economy wasn't on the verge of falling into recession on any conceivable metric and whi...

There are a number of factors that make the current mania in risk assets unique. Most notable may be the breadth of extreme overvaluation not just within the equity market but across a number of other asset classes. The incredible reach for yield we have seen, driven by the lowest interest rat...

On May 29, 2014, I explored a strategy which integrated two strategies my firm has invented: Hedged Contango Capture and Hedged Convexity Capture. My macro view was that unique intellectual property, based upon science, rather than superstition, would drive investment performance in the fu...