Making a brief history about me, I started trading stocks about 10 years ago. I researched and studied a lot, like majority of traders around the internet community. After not being successful and having a bit of time, I moved to Forex, but again I did not reach the consistency to become full time trader. After some years focused on my management consultant job and given some content of a project developed at an energy company, I took the first steps of risk management and hedging in commodities. That made me turn again to trading but with a different perspective! Learn the derivatives markets, specifically options and several strategies. After testing some strategies on a practice account and learning how options work, I started to trade live! But then came the August 15 charsh and I learn that on every trade there should be an hedge! At that time I was trading SPX options, as I considered individual stock too risky. At that time I also learn about a new asset class: Volatility. And for me this present the best opportunities in the market in a very consistent way! But, obvioulsly, always managing your risk! We never know what comes tomorrow! Even if we think about the low probability of a mini-crash!
In the last year, I researched on this field, and specialized on VXX trading (a long Volatility ETN from Barclays). Started with basis strategies, like buying longer term puts and selling shorter term Call Spreads and hedging techniques! But, soon after I realized I needed more complex strategies to better manage risk and developed "The Croc" trade! This trade is specifically designed for VXX and capture its price erosion, options time decay and protect investor from sudden volatility spikes!
I decided to share my accumulated knowledge on these topics (options trading and VXX) on Udemy platform where I developed some courses on Volatility trading.
I also though to create this blog, as a curator of volatility and financial markets information. Not only easily finded in the web, but also producing some content.
I have no prior experience in Blogging, but I will also commit to learn and improve this Blog!
You can also follow me on Twitter (@XIVy_VIXSpot) and Stocktwits (Volatility_Edge)!
To celebrate the launch of this Blog, I am giving away 10 coupons with ~80% discount on all my Udemy courses (one of them is the Short Term VXX Strategy http://bit.ly/shortvxx) - you can use VXXPBBLOG! It uses a Call Spread with a defined criteria (Deltas and DTE) that was optimized and backtested to produce high returns. Also, it discusses hedging strategy in case of Volatility exploision!
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