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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Stock splits—will the confusion ever end?

I understand how stock splits, forward and reverse can confuse novice investors, but I was shocked to see Reuters Money publishing a guest post titled:  “An inside look at a bad stock trade.”   This investor’s analysis of VXX’s 4:1 reverse split was: “Such a split means that investors would have one-fourth of the shares they owned before the split, but at four times the …

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