ST Alpha - "I put VIXY in the ETF watch list and all the other ETFs have gone down but its up 29% in 8 days. What is in there? -- nm" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 153

In response to "Looks like the Raddit gang *may* have moved on to iShares Silver Trust" by Brian

I put VIXY in the ETF watch list and all the other ETFs have gone down but its up 29% in 8 days. What is in there? -- nm

Posted by Pippy (aka Epiphany) Feb 1 '21, 07:34

(No message)

Responses:

VIX futures. Basically, the more volatile stock prices are, the better it does. It doesn’t hold any stocks, just derivatives. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 1, 07:37
Isn't that one of those "volatility" indexes? IE: it goes up when things are ape-shit? -- nm - oblique Feb 1, 07:37 4
- Yes...??? - Pippy Feb 1, 07:38 3
  - I vaguely remember those from my losses last year. I don't think I traded in those volatility indexes but I know I tried my hand at taking positions - oblique Feb 1, 07:41 2
    - I do know the results because they matched mine. - Pippy Feb 1, 07:43 1
      - Indeed. Mmmm, Vegas -- nm - oblique Feb 1, 07:45

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.