Horizons HVU seeks daily investment results, before fees, expenses, distributions, brokerage commissions and other transaction costs that endeavour to correspond to two times (200 %) the daily performance of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index ™.
To highlight, we can use the widely followed S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index as an example.
Horizons HUV seeks investment results, before fees, expenses, distributions, brokerage commissions and other transaction costs that endeavour to correspond to the performance of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index ™.
In 2017 alone, the S&P VIX Short Term Futures Inverse Daily Index returned 186 %, while the S&P VIX Short -
Term Futures Index lost 72 %.
The investment seeks to replicate, net of expenses, the inverse (opposite) of the return of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures index for a single day.
All futures have fixed expiration days; hence the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index has to roll from the first month futures contract to the second month futures contract prior to the expiration on the first month contract.
Exhibits 1a and 1b show the monthly roll cost of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index in the months when high - yield and emerging market bonds posted losses between February 2006 and April 2007.
Exhibit 2 shows that the roll cost has led to significant performance drag in the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index.
The investment seeks to replicate, net of expenses, twice the return of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures index for a single day.
The ProShares Ultra VIX Short - Term Futures ETF (NYSE: UVXY) seeks to provide 2x the daily performance of the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Index, before fees and expenses.
Not exact matches
JLL's latest City Momentum
Index identifies markets that have the most robust
future - proofing attributes to support long -
term success.
The VelocityShares Daily VIX Mid
Term ETN provides 2x leveraged exposure to an
index that tracks the price performance of
futures contracts in the VIX with a weighted average maturity of 5 months.
In the case of the S&P VIX Short
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX futures to short, while its benchmark is dr
Futures Inverse Daily
Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX
futures to short, while its benchmark is dr
futures to short, while its benchmark is dropping.
Specifically, they relate spot West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price to: the U.S. dollar exchange rate versus a basket of developed market currencies; Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) return; U.S. short -
term interest rate; the S&P 500 options - implied volatility
index (VIX); and, open interest in the NYMEX crude oil
futures (as an indication of financialization of the oil market).
Given that each VIX
futures contract has a constant vega exposure of 1000, the S&P VIX Short Term Futures Inverse Daily Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of
futures contract has a constant vega exposure of 1000, the S&P VIX Short
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of
Futures Inverse Daily
Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of years.
The S&P 500 ® VIX Short -
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index returned 186.39 %, and selling VIX futures has become a popular income - generating st
Futures Inverse Daily
Index returned 186.39 %, and selling VIX
futures has become a popular income - generating st
futures has become a popular income - generating strategy.
«Identifying VXX / XIV Tendencies» finds that the Volatility Risk Premium (VRP), estimated as the difference between the current level of the S&P 500 implied volatility
index (VIX) and the annualized standard deviation of S&P 500 Index daily returns over the previous 21 trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) ret
index (VIX) and the annualized standard deviation of S&P 500
Index daily returns over the previous 21 trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) ret
Index daily returns over the previous 21 trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short -
term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short -
term ETN (XIV) returns.
«Identifying VXX / XIV Tendencies» finds that S&P 500 implied volatility
index (VIX)
futures roll return, as measured by the percentage difference in settlement price between the nearest and next nearest VIX futures, may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) r
futures roll return, as measured by the percentage difference in settlement price between the nearest and next nearest VIX
futures, may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) r
futures, may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short -
term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) r
Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short -
term ETN (XIV) returns.
These long -
term options provide the holder the right to purchase, in the case of a call, or sell in the case of a put, a specified number of stock shares (or an equity
index) at a pre-determined price up to the expiration date of the option, which can be three years in the
future.
All
futures and options on
futures trading - which includes such product areas as short -
term interest rate and swap products, bonds, equity options, stock
indexes, commodity and FX instruments - are transacted on a single electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT, with central margining and clearing provided by ICE Clear Europe.
Furthermore, to understand key growth segments in
terms of growth & adoption of stevia - based products along with preferred application across the globe in the near
future, Future Market Insights developed the Stevia Market Attractiveness
future,
Future Market Insights developed the Stevia Market Attractiveness
Future Market Insights developed the Stevia Market Attractiveness
Index.
In addition, by setting forth several annual increases and taking the historic step of
indexing the maximum benefit in the
future, we have ensured that never again will our state's benefit fall to its current last in the nation status in
terms of wage replacement.
For example, a
future version of EPUB might allow for embedding category information in the actual
index term (something like < span epub: type ="
index -
term"category ="battle"> Gettysburg ) and
future reading systems could use that to dynamically locate and display to the user a list of all
terms in a given category.
Managed
futures as an asset class are historically non-correlated to the stock and bond markets over long
term periods and encompass a wide range of trading strategies (generally taking long / short positions in
futures contracts on equity
indices, commodities, financials and currencies).
Furthermore, we believe that near
term comparisons with
indices are not necessarily predictive of what the
future will hold.
That said, the research seems clear to me that cap - weighted
indexing is less efficient over the longer -
term than factor investing, so I see factor investing as having a bright
future even if it isn't nearly as «new and improved» as its marketers want to suggest.
Managed
Futures are an alternative investment asset class that allows investors to simultaneously participate in multiple global market sectors such as currencies, energies, metals, short and long
term interest rates, domestics and international stock
indices and traditional commodities.
The investment seeks to replicate, net of expenses, the S&P 500 VIX Short -
Term Futures Total Return
Index.
Creating the right portfolio allocation from the start, participating in the markets cheaply through
index and exchange - traded funds, and not speculating on the near -
term future of the markets by trying to time your trades.
The S&P 500 ® VIX Short -
Term Futures Inverse Daily
Index returned 186.39 %.
Should investors regard any of the exchange - traded products (ETP) based on S&P 500
Index option - implied volatility (VIX)
futures as long -
term holdings?
The S&P 500 VIX Short
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index measures the performance of continuously holding and rolling a short position in near - dated VIX f
Futures Inverse Daily
Index measures the performance of continuously holding and rolling a short position in near - dated VIX
futuresfutures.
In the case of the S&P VIX Short
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX futures to short, while its benchmark is dr
Futures Inverse Daily
Index, this would theoretically translate to increasing the number of VIX
futures to short, while its benchmark is dr
futures to short, while its benchmark is dropping.
Given that each VIX
futures contract has a constant vega exposure of 1000, the S&P VIX Short Term Futures Inverse Daily Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of
futures contract has a constant vega exposure of 1000, the S&P VIX Short
Term Futures Inverse Daily Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of
Futures Inverse Daily
Index has been gradually increasing its vega exposure over the past couple of years.
He tests relationships between change in VIX
futures term structure and S&P 500
Index return via regressions run at frequencies of one day, one week, two weeks, one month and two months, with the sample winnowed in each case so that measurements do not overlap.
In the February 2012 version of his paper entitled «The Relationship between VIX
Futures Term Structure and S&P 500 Returns», Athanasios Fassas relates the VIX futures term structure to both contemporaneous and future S&P 500 Index r
Futures Term Structure and S&P 500 Returns», Athanasios Fassas relates the VIX futures term structure to both contemporaneous and future S&P 500 Index retu
Term Structure and S&P 500 Returns», Athanasios Fassas relates the VIX
futures term structure to both contemporaneous and future S&P 500 Index r
futures term structure to both contemporaneous and future S&P 500 Index retu
term structure to both contemporaneous and
future S&P 500
Index returns.
Is the
term structure of CBOE Volatility
Index (VIX) futures useful for timing the underlying stock i
Index (VIX)
futures useful for timing the underlying stock
indexindex?
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The e-mini S&P stock
index futures bulls are still in firm near -
term technical command as prices earlier this week hit a contract and record high.
Money savvy couples who are looking for smart retirement solutions and more control of their long -
term finances will recognize the important role that fixed
indexed annuities (FIAs) play in any balanced financial plan for their
future.
The difference between the two... the
futures and the cash (remember, «cash» is just a shorthand
term for the S&P 500
index itself)... is called, on CNBC, the «spread» or «the premium» (since the
futures are usually at a premium to cash).
When gathering information to identify the risk and return characteristics of the many asset class
indexes that belong in a diversified portfolio, the more quality long -
term data you have, the more accurate and probable are your expectations about
future outcomes.
Gain or loss from
futures and options contracts on broad - based
indexes required to be marked to market will be 60 % long -
term and 40 % short -
term capital gain or loss.
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future liabilities