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Three weeks of CVOL—a wild ride

December 1, 2012December 8, 2010 by

Redirected Citigroup’s new volatility ETN, CVOL has only been trading since November 15th, but it is starting to show some intriguing results. Designed as a 2X leveraged volatility offering, in a class of products that are already known for volatility, we can expect a wild ride. So far it has lived up to its billing with a high of around 110, and a …

CVOL—the Other Volatility Kid on the Block

August 8, 2018November 22, 2010 by

UPDATE CVOL was shutdown by UBS in May of 2016. It never achieved enough assets for it to be a viable competitor CVOL’s stated goal is to “produce returns that are correlated to the CBOE Volatility Index (the “VIX Index”). ” So far no one has figured out a way to offer a direct investment in the VIX Index, so volatility traders must …