TVIX’s Last Reverse Split, Number 7—December 2nd, 2019

Update Effective July 2nd, 2020 TVIX stopped trading on national exchanges (press release). The issuer, Credit Suisse (CS) halted share creations effective July 3rd, 2020 but is not terminating the fund. They reserve the right to do so but don’t have to until 2030. TVIX is currently trading on OTC exchanges, e.g., OTCMarkets.com and is currently trading relatively close to its IV price, the theoretic value of …

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Google and Yahoo Finance Symbols

Some indexes can be hard to find on Google and Yahoo Finance.    The chart below gives some ticker symbols for popular indexes. Index Google Finance Ticker Yahoo Finance Ticker S&P 500 INDEXSP:.INX or .INX ^GSPC Dow Jones Industrial INDEXDJX:.DJI or .DJI ^DJI VIX INDEXCBOE:VIX ^VIX 13 Week Treasury Bills INDEXCBOE:IRX ^IRX              

Estimated Next VXX Reverse Split (No. 9) —August 12th, 2026

I’m predicting, based on historic decay patterns that VXX’s next reverse split will be 12-August-2026, at a four to one ratio. For a security doomed to decrease in value over time Barclays’ VXX does amazingly well.  Its volume averages over 5 million shares per day and its assets under management run around $250 million, not bad for a product that has averaged a 52% annual …

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Top 11 Questions About the CBOE’s VIX

Based on searches that lead people to Six Figure Investing, these are the top 10 questions people ask about volatility investing: How can I buy/trade/invest in the CBOE’s VIX® index?   The short answer is that you can’t.  No one has figured out how to do this economically. However, there are quite a few investment approaches that allow you to trade in volatility, including futures, options on …

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