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The Best Volatility Play

by John Rubino on April 18, 2010

Take a look at the chart below, and note the unnaturally smooth 80% decline. Kind of makes you think “imminent bankruptcy”. But now consider that the security in question is 100% guaranteed not to fall to zero and about 90% guaranteed to stay above 10. It’s VXX, an exchange traded fund that, according to its [...]

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The Boredom Before the Storm (Time to Buy Volatility)

by John Rubino on March 17, 2010

As eventful as the past few months have been (what with Greece, California, Illinois, Iran, the Lehman Brothers revelations, U.S./China trade friction, and record deficits just about everywhere), you’d think the financial markets would be agitated, to put it mildly. Instead, just about everything is range-bound, and the things that aren’t, like U.S. stocks, are [...]

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