2024-02-20 11:00:04 ET
Summary
- Simplify Volatility Premium ETF is a volatility-selling product sold as an income product.
- SVOL utilizes a volatility selling strategy by selling VIX futures one month out instead of the front month future.
- The ETF seeks to achieve modest exposure to short VIX exposure and protects against VIX spikes by buying out-of-the-money VIX calls.
The Simplify Volatility Premium ETF ( SVOL ) is a volatility-selling product that is sold as an income product. Perhaps the ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (SVXY) is the best-known of these products, although it has only about half the assets of SVOL these days....
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The SVOL Advantage: Smarter Exposure To Market Volatility