For updated information about SPY, IVV, and VOO’s dividend see this post. See here for my list / dates for iShare S&P related funds and here for the Russell related funds. Vanguard treats their ex-dividend dates like state secrets. See here for my estimates on Vanguard ETF ex-dividend and pay dates. .
This morning I took the plunge, buying equal amounts of IEF (93.10) and DTYS (52.95) this morning, with the goal of getting a low risk return of 1.7% annualized return or better. Before I bought I was surprised / dismayed to see that DTYS had fallen more per share than IEF had risen—casting doubt on my planned 1:1 hedging ratio. I looked back …
I have been loading up heavily in XIV during this correction. I certainly haven’t been bored, watching big gains one day go away the next, but the contango associated with VXX is currently structural—so as long as that situation continues XIV, which is short contango, will be a long term winner. If this correction turns out to be more than the minor setbacks we’ve …
Tuesday was a good day to look at the performance of the current crowd of volatility tickers. Below is a snapshot of things at the end of the day: . . . Some basics: SPY down 1.77%, with relatively high volume—233 million shares VIX closes at 20.80, up 4.37 points. A 26.6% move! VXX closes at 32.62 up 12.37% …
Last week didn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the CBOE’s Volatility index: VIX A 0.6% SPX dip, gone two hours later triggers a 3.75% step up in the VIX that didn’t go away At the Thursday morning opening VIX glitches down 0.6 points and then jumps 1.3 points VIX glitches down a point Friday morning for 15 minutes, and then recovers to within 0.03 …
