How Synthetic Long-Term VIX3M Data Reveals Surprising Trends
March 12, 2021. Vance Harwood presents a longer-term analysis of the VIX3M and how it relates to trends in the volatility term structure.
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VIX Futures Settlement Changes
February 9, 2021. Dr. Stuart Barton of Invest In Vol discusses recent changes to the VIX futures settlement process.
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Equity Exposure with Controlled Drawdown for 2021
December 3, 2020. Dr. Stuart Barton of Invest In Vol revisits volatility as a stock replacement strategy.
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How VIX ETPs Impact the Broader Equity Market
November 24, 2020. Dr. Stuart Barton of Invest In Vol analyzes whether VIX ETPs have a broader impact on the US equity market.
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How the VIX Works
Vance Harwood I October 7, 2020
Vance goes into detail on how the VIX Index works and why it's not broken.
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Trading Volatility in a Changing Political Regime
Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I August 27, 2019
Dr. Barton discusses trading volatility in difficult political regimes.
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VIX Explainer Video
With the recent Trump and Tariffs induced volatility, our VIX Explainer Video will hit home with anyone shorting volatility this year.
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How Trading Volatility is Changing
Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I March 6, 2019 Volatility Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) have undergone a lot of changes in the last year or...
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Volatility Risk Premium or VIX Futures Premium? Knowing the Difference
Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I January 29, 2019 Following a recent RIA Channel Webinar we presented with VelocityShares, we received a series...
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The Cost of Contango: Not the Daily Roll
Vance Harwood I December 14, 2018 It’s well known that long volatility Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) like VXX, UVXY, and TVIX often...
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Volatility as a Stock Replacement Strategy: Part II
Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I September 21, 2018 In October last year, I published an article asking whether daily inverse VIX products might...
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How Did ZIV Work?
Vance Harwood I July 16, 2018 Just about anyone who’s looked at a multi-year chart for a long volatility fund like Barclays’ VXX has...
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How Did EVIX and EXIV Work?
Vance Harwood I May 22, 2018 In May 2017 VelocityShares introduced two new volatility funds, EXIV and EVIX, which track European...
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How Does SVXY Work?
Vance Harwood I February 9, 2018 Update As of February 28, 2018 SVXY will target -0.5x leverage instead of -1x. This change was in...
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A Better Way to Model the VIX
Vance Harwood I November 29, 2017 Models are useful. They help us understand the world around us and aid us in predicting what will...
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The VIX and a Brief History of Volatility Trading
Stuart Barton I November 6, 2017 With so much interest in VIX linked Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) like VXX, XIV, and SVXY, etc., I...
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Webcast: One Minute Trader Talks to Stuart Barton about VIX ETPs
One Minute Trader I November 2, 2017 In this PodCast Matt Davio sits down with Invest In Vol's Stuart Barton to discus VIX exchange...
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Volatility as a Stock Replacement Strategy
Stuart Barton I October 12, 2017 Stock Replacement Strategies (SRS) attempt to replicate equity performance without directly investing in...
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Using VIX ETPs Properly
Justin Young I September 25, 2017 A highlight of last week’s CBOE Risk Management conference in London was a presentation by Nick Cherney...
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