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September 24, 2018 By Joe Marwood 12 Comments

Simple But Risky Volatility Strategy For VXX

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I’ve spent a good chunk of hours looking into volatility and I stumbled upon a simple volatility strategy for VXX. The idea is to go long the VXX ETF when volatility is rising and go short the ETF when volatility is falling. This is opposite to the usual approach which is to short volatility on sharp […]

Filed Under: Amibroker, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: amibroker, trading systems, volatility

October 4, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Three Simple Ideas For Trading Volatility

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I’ve been doing some work on volatility products and I’m particularly interested in finding long volatility strategies. Unfortunately, there are several reasons why betting on volatility going up is difficult: Stock markets tend to go up and volatility tends to drop. Volatility products that track the VIX suffer from time decay. Macroeconomic factors and central […]

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March 27, 2017 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

How To Trade Volatility The Right Way

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My goal is to bring new trading strategies to the table every month. Last month, I brought you details about building a trading robot with Excel and Interactive Brokers and this month I’m back with another excellent strategy from Peter Titus called The Big Volatility Short.

Filed Under: How to, Strategies/ Systems, Trading Tagged With: strategies, trading systems, volatility

May 29, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows

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US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]

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