Volatility Shares executed a 1:5 reverse split for UVIX, effective at market open January 25th, 2023. Since its inception in March 2022, UVIX’s decay rate has averaged around 13% per month. Some investors anticipate significant price moves in UVIX motivated by a reverse split. I’m not in that camp. UVIX’s price is tied to VIX futures’ price, which couldn’t care less about UVIX’s share price. A …
Arbitrage processes associated with Exchange Traded Products are normally invisible to investors but are essential for ETPs to trade as they are intended. This post describes these arbitrage processes in detail and explains how they can (and have) gone wrong. Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) enable stock-like trading of collections of securities that would be more difficult, or impossible to trade directly. For example, it’s not …
This post will discuss how UVIX works, including how it trades, how its value is established, what it tracks, backtest simulations, tax treatment, termination risk, and how it is likely to perform. VolatiltyShares’ new 2X Long VIX Futures ETF (ticker: UVIX) started trading on March 30th, 2022. After a gap of one and half years, volatility traders have access to a nationally traded, 2X leveraged …
This post will discuss how SVIX works, including how it trades, how its value is established, what it tracks, tax treatment, termination risk, likely liquidity, and performance simulations. Volatility Shares’ new -1x Short VIX Futures ETF (ticker: SVIX) started trading Wednesday, March 30th. After a gap of four years, volatility traders have access to a -1X leveraged short-term volatility Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). SVIX’s Prospectus …
This post discusses how the LONGVOL and SHORTVOL indexes work, but starts with some historical background that illuminates why these new indexes were needed. Two new leveraged volatility Exchange Traded Funds from Volatility Shares, -1X SVIX and 2X UVIX started trading on the 30th of March, 2022. SVIX and UVIX utilize two new Cboe indexes, the Short VIX Futures Index (ticker: SHORTVOL) and the …
