Ipath S&p 500 Vix St Futures Etn ETF News

The market depth has been reduced - that's the liquidity shock. Forced selling during the liquidity shock creates a buying opportunity in S&P 500. Read more on US market outlook.

The Fed is trying to tame inflation without causing a recession. Historically, tightening monetary policy into a period of economic deceleration doesn't go over well. Read more.

We are still in negative gamma, and that works both ways - big moves up and down. The options market is pointing to strong support at 4050-4000 on the S&P 500. We closed at 4123 on Friday.

The move comes weeks after the bank halted ‘VXX' and ‘OIL.'

The VIX ETPs have quite a few quirks and as a result of these quirks and their high volatility, there are considerable risks for both longs and shorts.

‘SPY' registered its first quarterly decline in two years, but it could have been worse; commodity ETFs surged.

The strategies return four years after a VIX spike wiped out billions in short volatility ETPs.

It had nothing to do with market gyrations and everything to do with an error at the banking giant.

Further developments have unfolded since Barclays abruptly suspended sales and issuances of two popular exchange traded notes earlier this month. The British bank said on March 28 that it faces an est

Barclays has announced the suspension of issuance of new creation units as well as sales from inventory for VXX and OIL.

The S&P 500 had been trending lower since the January 4 high - Bear markets experience vicious rallies. The VXX had been trending higher since January 12. The trend is always your best friend in marke

Launches continued at a steady pace, but there were very few other goings-on in the ETF space.

iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (BATS: VXX) is seeing the highest interest on Reddit's r/WallStreetBets forum as of early Wednesday. What Happened: The exchange-traded note topped th

Pozsar''s "Margin Call Doom Loop" Prediction Comes True As Trafigura Faces Billions In Margin Calls While there have been occasional stories of hedge fund blow ups (especially those trading Chinese stocks) amid the recent market volatility, so far we have yet to hear of a bank or any other "systematically important" market participant running into a solvency or liquidity crisis or needing a bailout, and yet a look at one of the most tangible funding market indicators - the FRA/OIS - has traded at very elevated levels in recent weeks, suggesting that there is indeed some funding trouble below the surface. But if it is not the banks scrambling for liquidity, then who? Recall what Zoltan Pozsar warned two weeks ago, when he said that " we could be looking at the early stages Of A Classic Liquidity Crisis " - according to the former NY Fed liquidity guru, none other than the commodity traders themselves, and their associated exchanges and clearinghouses, will be the drain of liquidity during this period of unprecedented commodity volatility, adding that "if you want to express all this in the credit space, look at what CDS spreads on some bigger commodity traders have done in the past few weeks." Sure enough, last week''s unprececented LME margin squeeze, where a 250% surge overnight in nickel prices nearly bankrupted Chinese tycoon Xiang Guangda whose Tsingshan Holding Group, the largest stainless steel maker, held a massive 150,000 tons nickel short and which resulted in $8 billion margin call which however even the collecting counterparties (one of which was JPMorgan) did not want to collect on knowing they would default Tsingshan, collect nothing and potentially push the LME itself into insolvency.

Crude Craters, Chinese Tech ''Dead Cat Bounces'', & VXX Decouples From Reality Another ''dead cat bounce'' in Chinese tech stocks ( after the overnight bloodbath ), a dip in core PPI ( just ignore surging headline PPI… oh and CPI), and a plunge in crude ( on positive Iran-nuke-deal comments ) were enough to ignite some momentum in US equities today ( shrugging off Russia''s sanctions escalation and Putin''s non-peace-deal-like comments )... Nasdaq was the leader today, soaring to over 3% gains intraday after being down almost 1 % in the pre-open The Bear Traps Report notes that at 115 days, the Nasdaq is 3 days away from the longest correction since the financial crisis. Thus far, Nov 19, 2021 to Mar 14, 2022 -21.6%, 115 days. Notably, today''s bounce in Growth occurred right at the crux of the Russell 1000 Growth/Value support line... Source: Bloomberg Crypto was also bid, with Bitcoin jumping back above $39,500... Source: Bloomberg And amid all that, utter chaos reigned in the biggest VIX ETN (VXX) which exploded higher, completely decoupling from the reality of its underlying asset (amid arb short-squeeze)...