Author Archives: Russell Rhoads, CFA

Record VIX Futures Volume

Russell Rhoads, CFA
Director of Education
CBOE Options Institute
September 14, 2012 - 9:07 am
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Earlier this week (Tuesday) we witnessed record volume in VIX Options and now the VIX Futures trading at the CBOE Futures Exchange have followed suit. On Thursday the CFE experience a record volume day of its own with strong volume in the VIX Futures arena. At the CFE just over 190,000 VIX Futures were traded […]

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Record VIX Option Volume

Russell Rhoads, CFA
Director of Education
CBOE Options Institute
September 12, 2012 - 10:37 am
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Yesterday – September 11, 2012 was a record day for VIX option trading with approximately 1.22 million contracts traded. This surpasses the previous record of 1.17 million contracts back on August 5, 2011. This also marks only the third time that VIX option volume has surpassed 1 million contracts. The other day this occurred was […]

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Q&A on VIX from CBOE Webcast

Russell Rhoads, CFA
Director of Education
CBOE Options Institute
September 12, 2012 - 9:54 am
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Yesterday I hosted a webcast for CBOE on trading exchange traded products that base their performance on VIX strategies.  During the webcast Barb and I fielded several very good questions regarding VIX.  A few highlights are below – Can you comment on the recent relatively low level of VIX? VIX has been under 20 and […]

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