Wednesday, February 21, 2018

XIV imploded, the full story.

XIV
Credit Suisse CEO on controversial volatility trades: 'It worked well for a long time until it didn't'
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/credit-suisse-ceo-on- controversial-volatility-trades.html
we made $2 billion profit, and then closed the XIV.
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 the whale mystery trader , dubbed 50 cent----made $200 million on VIX
http://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iJzGPwJZp.k4/v3/800x- 1.png
you find this guy, you find your manipulator, imo.
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 John Griffin, professor of finance at the University of Texas and Ph.D. candidate Amin Shams in May 2017 in research that says the cost of manipulating less-liquid SPX options would be more than paid for by a successful bet on the direction of the VIX
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-wall-streets-fear-gauge-is- being-rigged-according-to-one-whistleblower-2018-02-13
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 you can only DAYTRADE SVXY, it has 90% overnight, risk exposure---

https://www.etftrends.com/traders-are-flocking-to-bearish- volatility-etf/

while at least two exchange-traded products that use the strategy imploded, SVXY weathered the storm,”
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 intuitively, i knew there was something wrong with these 2x 3x vix etf's---
they didn't move 2x or 3x the vix, they never did---and they had contagion---

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