On Monday, Bryan and I recommended a volatility straddle using the iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (NYSE: VXX). A straddle is when you buy a put and a call option with the same ...

Investors tend to have varying ideas about whether to buy/sell/deleverage during different volatility paradigms. I ran a study using VXX to predict SPY performance, finding that where VXX lies in its ...

What in the world is going with the Barclays iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures (BATS:VXX) exchange-traded note (ETN)? Shares of the VXX ETN are up over 9% today at the time of writing and ...

Options traders are banking on iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures ETN (VXX) to decline through the end of the week In keeping with its usual trend, the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures ETN (NYSE ...

The stock market doesn't advance in a straight line, and some people try to profit from the volatility. When it comes to getting some insight into expected market volatility, many investors look at ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. How do you hedge your long positions? One solution is VIX futures or options thereof. The savvy investor knows ...