October 11th, 2018 – Colossus from Deadpool, Risk Management, and huge VIX spikes

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 11, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community, Is anyone here a fan of Deadpool?  You don’t need to have seen the movie to get my analogy today, but for some reason, it popped into my head when I started writing.  Anyway, in the movie, Colossus is explaining to...

October 10th, 2018 – Asymmetric risk, and potential for new options trades

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 10, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community, Markets continue to decline today and the VIX index is pushing an 18 handle.  Now is a good example of something that I often talk about here, which is asymmetric risk.  That basically means that the risk to the upside and to...

October 8th, 2018 – New “Vol Step Strategy” UVXY put spread today

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 8, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community, We are currently in all safety positions for our core Balanced and Volatility strategies, waiting for things to settle down a little bit before jumping back into this market.  So if you’re not following our options...

October 4th, 2018 – Tracking profit on options trades and when to use stop-losses

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 4, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community, Today we’ll check in on all our VTS Discretionary Options positions and I’ll show you the simple way that I track them from day to day.  That’s one of the things that I think has surprised a few people who...

October 3rd, 2018 – Why shorting volatility during VIX futures contango may fail – Part 2

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 3, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community,   * I had a very strange email yesterday from someone who thought the failed backtest I was criticizing in Monday’s article was our live results.  I’m sorry about that, I’m an investor, not a writer so...

October 2nd, 2018 – All volatility ETPs are negative year to date

by Brent Osachoff | Oct 2, 2018 | Daily Trade Signals

YouTube Twitter Linkedin   VTS Community, I received a ton of positive response to yesterday’s blog about what the results would be if a person just blindly followed the VIX futures term structure signals and was short volatility during times of contango and...