TVIX News and Press, VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN From 01/10/20

Selling Volatility More Profitable Post Financial Crisis The purpose of this article is to reiterate that selling volatility remains profitable post financial crisis (but should not be implemented through the Iron Condor strategy). In a recent paper titled Is Selling Options Still Wort...

I measure once a month the decay of major leveraged ETFs. It may be useful for anyone using leveraged ETFs for investing, trading or hedging. Where does the decay come from? Leveraged ETFs often underperform their underlying indexes leveraged by the same factor. This relative decay has ...

The long VIX ETF charts have been strictly "down and to the right" ever since the markets pulled out of their late-2018 panic. More news on: iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN, VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN, ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF, Stocks on the m...

The 3x Leveraged Nasdaq ProShares UltraPro QQQ ( TQQQ ) is up over 5,000% since inception, about 10 years ago. According to historical data, the split-adjusted shares opened around $1.63 in February of 2010 and they currently trade around $86. For reference, $10,000 plopped into this ETF on th...

Over the last year, the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN ( TVIX ) has simply destroyed shareholder value by delivering a crushing 93% loss. If you view last year’s decimation as something abnormal, I have bad news for you: this trend is likely going to continue for the foresee...

Top leveraged gainers:  Semiconductor Bull 3X Direxion (NYSEARCA: SOXL ) +230% . More news on: Direxion Daily Semiconductor 3x Bull Shares ETF, Direxion Technology Bull 3x Shares ETF, Direxion Daily Homebuilders & Supplies Bull 3x Shares ETF, News on ETFs, Stocks on the move, ...

The final quarter of 2019 was the polar opposite of the same period in 2018. Rising interest rates in the US in late 2018 led to a significant correction that took the stock market appreciably lower between late September and the end of the year. Stocks hit the lowest level since early 2017 in...

It's been a good deal of fun watching our clients' account values go up and up these last few months. Why is the market rallying week after week? The problems in the repo market approaching year end have the Federal Reserve back in the Quantitative Easing business. If terms like repo and QE ha...

Background The article you're about to read is The Macro Teller 's ("TMT") first publication on the Seeking Alpha ("SA") platform, under this name. Nevertheless, TMT is not a new face on SA, rather the "macro version", alter-ego if you'd like, of the same author whose known here by th...

With only weeks to go in 2019, the final quarter of this year has been a welcome change from the same time in 2018 for investors in the stock market. Last year at this time, stocks focused on the hawkish Fed that hiked short-term interest rates four times for a total of a full percentage point...