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Summer Meltdown In Stocks Unlikely, Says Volatility Expert Noel Smith

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Are You Making Money in Teste to Day?

Being long volatility or short volatility is only good as a function of where you bought it or sold it, relative to where it is now. I made money in two thousand 17 with the vix at nine, because it realized six. It could have gone to 12 very easily, in which case i would have lost money. So just because the vix is at 24 doesn't really mean anything. That's what the other 30 day implied ford volatility is. But that doesn't mean it's a good sell or a bad sale. It's a good sale if you sell at 24 and it realizes 12. Great, right?

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