Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I August 27, 2019 Dr. Barton discusses trading volatility in difficult political regimes.

Vance Harwood I April 24, 2019 Status quo forecasting is sometimes very easy to do. For example, if you predict that tomorrow’s high temperature will be the ...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I March 29, 2019 In January 2019, Invest In Vol partnered with Vaucluse Partners to offer Separately Managed Accounts on their quanti...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I March 6, 2019 Volatility Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) have undergone a lot of changes in the last year or so. Following the afte...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I January 29, 2019 Following a recent RIA Channel Webinar we presented with VelocityShares, we received a series of questions that re...

Vance Harwood I December 14, 2018 It’s well known that long volatility Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) like VXX, UVXY, and TVIX often experience steady losse...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I September 21, 2018 In October last year, I published an article asking whether daily inverse VIX products might offer a supplement,...

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 thought about taking the...

Stuart Barton I June 26, 2018 Following the events of Feb. 5th, several volatility linked products have been delisted or deleveraged. We thought now was a go...

Vance Harwood I May 22, 2018 In May 2017 VelocityShares introduced two new volatility funds, EXIV and EVIX, which track European volatility futures. In diggi...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I March 15, 2018 Introduction The volatility markets have already experienced two seismic events in 2018. First the sharp devaluation...

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 response to the events of...

Vance Harwood I November 29, 2017 Models are useful. They help us understand the world around us and aid us in predicting what will happen next. But it's imp...

Jason MacArthur I November 28, 2017 If you ask successful traders to list important components of their success, undoubtedly, risk management would be near t...

Stuart Barton I November 6, 2017 With so much interest in VIX linked Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) like VXX, XIV, and SVXY, etc., I thought it might be wor...

Stuart Barton I October 12, 2017 Stock Replacement Strategies (SRS) attempt to replicate equity performance without directly investing in the stocks they see...

Justin Young I September 25, 2017 A highlight of last week’s CBOE Risk Management conference in London was a presentation by Nick Cherney on the design and t...

Stuart Barton, PhD, CFA I August 28, 2017 Have retail VIX Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) like the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX), VelocitySh...

Stuart Barton I August 10, 2017 Summary VarSwaps make up a significant portion of the equity volatility market. Retail investors trading ETFs should understa...

Stuart Barton I July 11, 2017 Summary VIX futures term structure is seen as a major driver of VIX ETP performance Demand for long dated S&P 500 volatility pr...