Sentences with phrase «sell volatility futures»

Most worrying of all are the ETFs which sell volatility futures: implicitly leveraged and roughly five times more volatile than the stock market.

Not exact matches

The debut of the first futures contract on an established exchange was relatively orderly, in contrast to expectations of high volatility and traders short selling, or betting against, bitcoin.

Margin accounts are a big part of buying and selling futures contracts, which allow buyers and sellers to protect themselves against price volatility.

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volatility could fall after the first short option expires, lowering the time value of your LEAP as well as future short - term options you would want to sell, making it harder (or impossible) to achieve your profit goal over several option cycles

The longer into the future until you'll want to sell an investment to raise cash for spending, the less you need to think about liquidity and volatility.

Stock traders who have been using approaches that assume low - volatility conditions will persist indefinitely (e.g., shorting VIX futures, selling option premium, or simply increasing long position size) need to be prepared for a changing of the market guard — or risk getting crushed when volatility doesn't immediately retreat after its next upward spike.

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Compared to selling equity options, selling VIX futures is an operationally simple strategy that can provide clean volatility exposure through exchange - traded liquid instruments.

Selling VIX futures increased both annualized return and volatility, while writing put or call options tended to reduce portfolio volatility by forgoing part of the returns.