Sellable VIX

NexusFi · 2019-05-20T04:33:38-04:00

As I said it's a stupid trade unless you use a pro technique. The way you phrase the question indicates to me that you will need to roll up your sleeves if you want to do the following: The way we trade that is with options ratio spreads or pairs trades to finance the long vol with short vol positions. Such as VIX 1x2 backspreads. You can just as well do that with SPX zero premium trades. The strategy is you use the table stakes that come from the short vol to allow you to stay in the game long enough …

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Sellable VIX

May 20th, 2019, 03:49 AM

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suko

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OK, then no free juice for you!

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May 20th, 2019, 04:33 AM	#12 (permalink)
flamboyant Cancun Elite Member Experience: None Platform: Sierra Chart, MarketDelta Trading: CL Posts: 49 since Apr 2018 Thanks Given: 29 Thanks Received: 29	50 cent was averaging down OTM calls throughout 2017 expecting the VIX spike and lucked out only in February 2018 when it`s finally sparked.That was a real nonesense trade, dispite him making a sht tone of money.

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