Update 20-Oct-2023 Credit Suisse announced yesterday that it will be closing a set of Exchange Traded Notes that include volatility ETNs TVIX, VIIX, and ZIV. These funds had been closed to share issuance since July-2020, signaling that Credit Suisse (CS) was exiting this business. However, rather than closing down the funds at that point by accelerating their maturity date (2030), Credit Suisse choose to let …
It’s now clear that the VXUP/VXDN naysayers were right—the actual behavior of these funds is nowhere close to Accushares’ claim that “VXUP and VXDN are the first securities to offer direct “spot” exposure to the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX).” Accushares has said nothing publicly about the poor behavior of the funds. Their only response has been to move up the “go live” date of their Corrective …
I’ve taken 20 minute delayed information to calculate tracking information and other items of interest using Google Sheets and Yahoo Finance’s on-line resources. The day-end NAV values for these funds can be found here and here. The last two lines in the table above show an experiment in progress. It’s likely that the VXUP shares will track fairly close to the VIX futures that …
Exchange Trade Fund UVXY is a 1.5X leveraged fund that tracks short-term volatility. To have a good understanding of UVXY (full name: Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF) you need to know how it trades, how its value is established, what it tracks, and how ProShares makes money running it. For the last year, UVXY has been the only leveraged long volatility Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) …
All volatility Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) use indexes that track a mix of two or more months of the CBOE’s VIX Futures. Calculating this mix is not trivial and has resulted in a lot of bleary eyes—including my own. My intent with this post is to help you understand, and if you desire to accurately compute the key indexes used in VXX and other short …
