I don’t know how to make sense out of that comment concerning a VIX crash of 50% and terminating UVXY. Such a scenario is the correlated design of UVXY and would be business as usual

If UVXY dips below $9-8 for more than two weeks an RS is usually announced

@gvnr I’m not sure that’s what he meant as the IV value threshold for XIV is 80%, I think he may have meant the UVXY/VXX/TVIX of the world but I could be wrong as I have to review his video.

It’s possible both XIV and SVXY can be terminated if they exceed the 80% single day IV value. Which both did exceed today. There is no word from the funds as of yet though.

Sorry Alex other than many positions being forced closed it’s hard to say.

Sounds like a good plan @volguru. Best of luck and profits to you!

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@ronturkey simply a small long position against a larger short position. I’m typically looking at it only for a day trade. It’s a differentiation on the liquidity model whereby the existing cash is simply put to work on perceived benign uptick in VIX complex. It’s TIMING or in the current VIX regime trending until VIX relaxes once again.