Sentences with phrase «volatility products»

For all the reasons the options market is dangerous, the same can be said of volatility products, which can change very quickly.

A good example of fortuitous timing was the launch of low volatility products just at the time when investors were interested in returning to the stock market, but where wary of market turbulence.

First, he notes that the relative illiquidity seen in small - caps actually benefited them during the early - February market meltdown, which was worsened by forced selling in volatility products.

Morgan Stanley's chief US equity strategist, Mike Wilson, however, thinks the situation is far less dire than before, and argues the big drop in short - volatility products actually helped flush out risky positions.

Even before early February's market turmoil, Fidelity, which temporarily blocked the inverse volatility products after their freefall, required customers to sign an agreement that calls out the risks of volatility and leveraged products, a spokeswoman said.

Mid-term volatility products tend to be less volatile than short - term products but also tend to track less close to the VIX index.

CME, the world's biggest exchange owner, and smaller venue Cboe, known for its VIX volatility products, were allowed to offer the products Friday after pledging to U.S. regulators that they comply with the law.

The graph below shows the price movements on the SVXY, a short volatility product.

That said, it is far better to play with simpler and cleaner investments, and adjust your risk posture between 0 - 100 % equities, rather than cross-hedge with equity volatility products.

When talking about «low volatility products,» Yasenchak is referring to portfolios that «specifically seek benchmark - like returns, over the full market cycle, with a total volatility, measured as the standard deviation, falling considerably below that of the index.»

About 21 percent of the investors in short - volatility products are considered non-institutional, meaning not professional traders.

We saw a volatility product blow up Monday night.

Over the past three years, numerous low - volatility products have come to market with the basic idea of protecting a portfolio on the downside, while getting decent (though not lights - out) returns on the upside.

Like we did with the top - performing ETFs story from last week, we put together two lists — one that includes all ETFs and one that excludes inverse, leveraged and volatility products.

The results show for the first time for a number of natural compounds, which together account for around 70 per cent of the biological hydrocarbon emissions, how much each compound produces low - volatility products and how they can possibly affect the climate via producing aerosol particles.