Simplify Volatility Premi... (SVOL)

SVOL's 20% monthly yield sounds like a dream until you look at what the fund quietly hands back to investors, who is already running for the exits, and what happens to your principal when volatility d...

Options sellers have quietly been harvesting the gap between investor fear and actual market volatility, and three ETFs package that trade into monthly paychecks using very different mechanics that ma...

SVOL's 21.9% monthly yield looks irresistible until you examine what the distribution history, options positioning, and a rising VIX actually reveal about where that income comes from and how quickly ...

SVOL has kept its 20% yield intact through a turbulent stretch, but one shift in the VIX futures curve quietly transforms its core profit engine from tailwind to headwind, and the monthly distribution...

Believe it or not, Volmageddon is now almost eight years behind us, but it is still fresh in my mind whenever I look at short-volatility products. For newer investors, Volmageddon refers to the volati...