Comments on: VIX Slips Below 50 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Ze Carioca http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124648 Ze Carioca Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:45:27 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124648 Ah.. selling vol. Best thing is when you sell 30 vol and it goes to 60, you rarely just lose 30. You get demolished!!! And when it moves like this you get demolished day in and day out. Basically if it's moving Vol moves out. if it stops for a moment it gets too expensive to carry and comes in. Direction I am often wrong about but Selling options is always just insanity!! Ah.. selling vol. Best thing is when you sell 30 vol and it goes to 60, you rarely just lose 30. You get demolished!!!

And when it moves like this you get demolished day in and day out. Basically if it’s moving Vol moves out. if it stops for a moment it gets too expensive to carry and comes in.

Direction I am often wrong about but Selling options is always just insanity!!

]]> By: Mark E Hoffer http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124594 Mark E Hoffer Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:58:15 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124594 wasn't that just a 'classic' pull-back to the nearby MA? whatever one that is denoted by the magenta line... I don't think 'volatility' is going away, anytime soon. As a matter of fact, rather, "non-linearity is the new volatility".. wasn’t that just a ‘classic’ pull-back to the nearby MA? whatever one that is denoted by the magenta line…

I don’t think ‘volatility’ is going away, anytime soon. As a matter of fact, rather, “non-linearity is the new volatility”..

]]> By: roncfp http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124589 roncfp Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:45:26 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124589 Well that didn't last long. So much for the "sub-50" celebration...... 55 and climbing. Ouch! Well that didn’t last long. So much for the “sub-50″ celebration…… 55 and climbing. Ouch!

]]> By: Ramstone http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124580 Ramstone Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:50:31 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124580 <i>It’s starting to look like 70 is the new 30.</i> Yes, but what I want to knowis whats the new 15. It’s starting to look like 70 is the new 30.

Yes, but what I want to knowis whats the new 15.

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124576 DL Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:30 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124576 Bruce N Tennessee @ 1:45 Of course, it’s not quite that simple, as a 12 month chart of QID or QLD (for example) will reveal. Bruce N Tennessee @ 1:45

Of course, it’s not quite that simple, as a 12 month chart of QID or QLD (for example) will reveal.

]]> By: Bruce N Tennessee http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124573 Bruce N Tennessee Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:45:26 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124573 @DL: One good thing about these new funds...if they are leveraged 3 to 1 and you think you should be 30 per cent in stocks....wellllll...you can keep 90 per cent in bonds and invest the 10 per cent in the 3/1 funds, and viola! Two birds killed with one stone! I may get the hang of this economic stuff any day now... @DL:

One good thing about these new funds…if they are leveraged 3 to 1 and you think you should be 30 per cent in stocks….wellllll…you can keep 90 per cent in bonds and invest the 10 per cent in the 3/1 funds, and viola! Two birds killed with one stone! I may get the hang of this economic stuff any day now…

]]> By: patient renter http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124569 patient renter Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:19:48 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124569 Well QID and SDS are less volatile than some of the other Proshares, but 3x leverage could be downright dangerous. I guess we'll see. Well QID and SDS are less volatile than some of the other Proshares, but 3x leverage could be downright dangerous. I guess we’ll see.

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124564 DL Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124564 For those of you who think that QID and SDS are just too tame: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Direxion-Funds-916219.html For those of you who think that QID and SDS are just too tame:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Direxion-Funds-916219.html

]]> By: karen http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124560 karen Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:26:48 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124560 i'm not thrilled that spx just dropped below 980. my picks today were vlo and ibn; thus far i would have been better off with sds. agree with barry on $vix... in hindsight it's a crystal ball. 60 minute vix is rolling over; 30 minute vix is conflicted. crap shoots are so much fun! i’m not thrilled that spx just dropped below 980. my picks today were vlo and ibn; thus far i would have been better off with sds. agree with barry on $vix… in hindsight it’s a crystal ball. 60 minute vix is rolling over; 30 minute vix is conflicted.

crap shoots are so much fun!

]]> By: DL http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/vix-slips-below-50/comment-page-1/#comment-124559 DL Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:15:44 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=8051#comment-124559 It's starting to look like 70 is the new 30. It’s starting to look like 70 is the new 30.

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