2 ways to Short the VIX - Short Volatility - Options Trading

why not just buy a put with 3 months time?

This guy is the best... I wish he would put out more content.. I must have watched LCV,LPV,SPV ,SCV Video 7 times each.. it helps me cause its demonstrated on TOS

is it make sense to sell put option on the vix while the price is under 20?

Why do you use a Long Put vertical and not short call vertical??

why don't you just sell a futures contract? don't all the comissions and spreads kill you when doing this multi-leg options strats?

I love the video. Good stuff

Can you explain the pros and cons of using a long put spread vs a short call spread to short volatility?

Fascinating

So does this mean buying a VIX call when the VIX is really low make money if the VIX got really high?

Wonder how you think about the down trend of VXX over these years no matter bull or bear?

Listen to this guy, FYI the VIX was 37 on 5/1/2020, right in the money range for what Brent said!

Thank you for the great content. I am also confused since there is another video saying best strategy to short volatility is to do stock replacement through long VXX puts. Is this viable after the spike in Mar2020?

Another great video. Also fun to be able to look back in hindsight now. Fed screwing everything up eh

Best channel out there for learning vix

Wait you can trade options on VIX in TD now?

Brent, on your video 4 ways to short Volatility you put vertical spread as #2 and deep ITM stock replacement puts as #1 best strategy. Are you saying here that vertical spread and butterfly are better than stock replacements? When is the best to use the butterfly strategy and when is it best to use stock replacement put options?

Hi Brent, Iam new to volatility trades, Just to understand if I buy UVXY at say today's rate of 21$ and hold it for next 3 months or till the price hikes..the 21$ would have most possibly gone down in value in these 3 months uptill 90% of it's value.( as I understood from your videos) which is why you say don't hold it for more than a few days..However my question is can it trade negative? Like a 100$ invested today can it go down to say -1 ? Or will it only go down till 0? Also can I trade this from my TFSA account

Thanks for your abundant knowledge sharing. Iam just confused. In your above video you shared 2 ways to short VIX and one of them is "Long Put Vertical". The you have made another video showing "Why Put Option don't work". Please clarify .

What if I just sell put options (OTM) on SVXY and collect premium ...... in case VOL spikes and I have to take delivery SVXY, then anyway given VIX mean reverting nature I can eventually get out at breakeven ..... am I shorting VOL here or is the thinking nonsense.

I am very new to option trading, but have been looking into VIX options since the market collapse recently. I have been watching trading volumes on November 18th put options and noticed there is a lot of volume on the $10 strike price. Most of the volume was around the peak and the days following. Since then, the VIX has fell from mid 80 to around 40. It seemed people were buying around $0.10 - 0.15 avg per contract at around the peak and now that it's fell 50% or so, those contracts are still trading around the same. Can you explain the pricing for this and why people are still purchasing puts even though there is no real movement in price with the VIX dropping? Or, point me in the direction for an explanation. Thanks...

Hello, I want to start by saying thank you for the videos. I’m new to trading and I saw something on the TVIX charts that confused me. Why do all of the charts show TVIX anywhere from 100,000 to almost 1 billion dollars per share. I’m showing the 100k around April of 2016 and 1 billion in 2011? Should I just buy a share of TVIX for $250 and risk that money to catch the big pay day or is there something I don’t know?

I don't get why anybody to downvote this stuff but you should see that as a symbol that you are legit since "haters be hatin'."

Respect man!
Btw, I'm sure your ancestors original last name was Usachov ( Усачев ). There's a famous market in Moscow, so who knows, maybe your grandgrand parents opened it :)

Would I be able to just open a short position on vxx?

So what do you think about getting back into tvix tmr morning for short term gains

Thank you Brent, waiting for you to signal when you to go ahead with the trade

vix{%1/0] = 60

put/call = 60%

Very Well Done!

I bought my VIX puts today :)

Why won’t the video load lol

Do you guys know of any resources to help me get a better understanding of options trading?

Can we buy SVXY for the same goal?

If you are expecting volatility to stay elevated in the short term, why not execute the broken wing for Friday expiration?

I would like to see the same for the VXX!

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