The inverse VIX Exchange Traded Note XIV "flash crash" february 5th 2018.
What happens whan something that "cannot happen" happens. If you don't knwo what a statictical outlier is, then the DJIA selloff on monday february fith 2018 may be difficutlt to undrstand. Simpy explained it was a bet on being short the CBOE VIX or long the inverse of the VIX. When volatility in the market is low, you earn money, but when volatility increases, the inverse 1/VIX falls. In other words, it was a bet on low volatility.
Cboe | VIX and Volatility
Marketwatch | VIX charts Marketwatch | XIV - VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN Marketwatch | XIV trader: ‘I’ve lost $4 million, 3 years of work and other people’s money’ Marketwatch | Credit Suisse announces plan to liquidate XIV inverse volatility ETN Marketwatch | ‘Short-volatility Armageddon’ craters a pair of Wall Street’s most popular trades, could roil market Reuters | Credit Suisse exposure to volatility notes hedged Reuters | BlackRock warns of risk as inverse volatility products sink Reuters | U.S. stock volatility spikes; short volatility ETPs implode Bloomberg | ETFs Quake Under Volatility Spike as Credit Suisse Redeems Note Bloomberg | What on Earth Happened to Stocks? Here's Where to Cast the Blame Bloomberg | Credit Suisse Says It Saw No Losses From VIX-Linked Securities Bloomberg | An Inventor of the VIX: ‘I Don’t Know Why These Products Exist’ Bloomberg | Fear Gauges Beyond VIX Show Traders Don't Think It's That Bad Financial Times | Shorting volatility: its role in the stocks sell-off Financial Times | Credit Suisse to close ‘inverse volatility’ ETN after price plunge CNBC | Credit Suisse says it will end trading in the volatility security that's become the focus of this sell-off CNBC | Obscure security linked to stock volatility plummets 80% after hours, sparking worries of bigger market effect ETF.com | XIV - VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN Credit-suisse | X-Links™ Exchange Traded Notes Investopedia | ETF Or ETN? What's The Difference? Investopedia | Exchange Traded Notes: An Alternative To ETFs Thebalance | The Difference Between ETNs and ETFs WSJ | ETFs vs. ETNs: You Better Know the Difference in Risk ForXlive | The XIV is going to be the first big ETF blowup and Credit Suisse is going to be hit hard VelocityShares | (XIV) - Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN Theatlantic | Volatility Is Scary—but It's Normal FoxBusiness20 | Largest Percentage Losses in DJIA History Forbes | 500-1,000 Point Moves, The New Normal On Wall Street?
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Euro era volatility measures.
Eurex Volatility Derivatives on Eurex Exchange: VSTOXX® Borse Frankfurt | EURO STOXX 50 Volatility VSTOXX EURXX | VSTOXX Derivatives Investing | STOXX 50 Volatility VSTOXX EUR (V2TX) EURXX | VSTOXX® Futures (FVS) macroption | VSTOXX (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index) WSJ | EURO STOXX 50 Volatility (VSTOXX) Index EUR EURO STOXX 50® Volatility (VSTOXX®) Investing | STOXX 50 Volatility VSTOXX EUR (V2TX) .macroption | VSTOXX ETF & ETN List Other volatility measures.
CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) Futures barchart | S&P 500 VIX prices MarketWatch | evix Vixcentral Velocityshares | ETFS | ETNS | INDICES Trading Volatility | VSTOXX Futures
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