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Are you saying those things are not correlated to the general US market, or they are not correlated to one another? Thanks!

Sig, you are the MAN! Thanks so much for that clear and coherent response!!!

Groovy.

Yes indeed. Guys, I am not asking for opinions as to my goal, only how to get there as a technical matter. Thanks.

I am short several 3x ETFs, the inverse ones, so I am effectively long. But I don't want to buy those, as that will trigger tax on my gains. So instead I want to short their inverse, the 3x long counterparts, and have as absolutely as small net gain/loss on the positions going forward - I want...

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Like, historically, what has been the best time of day to buy, versus best time to sell? There does not seem to be historical data on this, at least right off hand when I google it. For selling, I think it might be right after market open, based on the...

Yea but it seems the same to me could be said of selling VIX futures, rolling them over time, but it is a much bigger positive expectancy over time, at least historically.

I get that. But rolling VIX futures sales generates returns weekly as well. But much, much higher returns apparently. I'm trying to figure out why returns doing that are so much better than the returns selling SP500 options

Thanks guys. I'm not saying the time is right to do this or that, I'm just curious as to why there is the huge disparity in returns. If you had sold VIX futures over time, you'd have like a 50% annual return on average. But if you sold puts on SP500 I think your annual return over time would...

when you could just sell VIX futures that are apparently much more profitable over the long haul? Like all the VIX funds and ETFs, VXXB, VIXY, UVXY, TVIX, they spiral towards zero, in the case of the last one I think to the tune of almost 100% a year over time. Why not just sell the VIX...

And I understand they are both governed by market forces. I guess I am asking the question of why these differences can exist - why are they not arbed away, either by traders, or by the persons that can issue ETF shares if the prices get out of line?

Thanks Felix. I think I understand all that. I'm just trying to figure out why the performance can differ so much for really no good reason. ETFs hold the underlying futures, and ETNs (I think) basically relate the payment to be made on liquidation to what the portfolio of futures would be...

I was looking at comparisons of performance between some VIX ETFs/ETNs. Generally, over long periods, they are very close, with different decay rates of course. I.E. TVIX generally does 2x what VIXY does, which makes sense as TVIX is a 2x ETN and VIXY is a 1x ETF. But sometimes there...

Holdings seemed nothing special at all.

Just curious how like really, really small cap stocks do in huge bear markets. Like penny stocks or stock close to them. Part of me thinks that they would do the worst - they are probably in general more marginal companies whose best hope to really turn profits is an extremely favorable...

Seems a very tough question haha.

Kind of a weird question - but does anyone know? In other words, lets say one has shorted VIXY, UVXY, or TVIX when there is contango, or is long them when there is backwardation. So in both cases your position will increase in value each day even if volatility stays the same. Is there an easy...

LOL!

Below it now. By the way, when you guys say RTH, what does that stand for? Thanks!

Related to Apple warning or whatever no?