IVO, one of Barlays’ inverse volatility ETNs terminated today when it briefly dipped below its $10 termination value. The automatic redemption value will be $11.8024 next Monday, the 19th. IVO was designed to behave as a true short of the short term volatility index SPXVSP ( fundamentally the same index that VXX tracks). This approach avoids the potential path dependency / compounding errors of percentage …
Redirected to volatility tickers Update: UBS terminated all of these ETNs on September 12, 2012. They never gathered enough assets to be viable. UBS has single-handedly increased the number of volatility focused ETNs/ETFs from 16 to 28. My initial analysis is that there is nothing revolutionary with these new products. Four of the twelve are effectively clones of Barclays‘ VXX and VXZ products, and VelocityShares‘ …
Note: XVZ was an exchange traded note, which an expiration date of Aug, 11, 2021. Barclays chose to not create a new instance of XVZ, it was never highly successful. Investco’s PHDG is still available, and uses the same index as XVZ did. It did well in the COVID crash, but generally significantly lags the S&P. ************************************************************************************ Barclays’ XVZ volatility ETN is intended to allow investors …
It used to be that quotes / charts for all of the underlying indexes for volatility ETNs could be found on Bloomberg, however some of them are no behind their paywall. For example VXX uses SPVXSTR which is no longer free, however XIV uses SPVXSP which is still available for free. These indexes show the indicated value of the index that the ETNs track—this is the value used …
For most of 2011 SPY’s has been quite a bit higher than 2005 values for the same day, but this August there were 3 days where SPY closed within a half a point of its equivalent 2005 close. If this coincidence continues to be predictive, we won’t be starting a bear market for a while. Normalized volume for the last year has been quite a …
