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Rocky Fishman, Founder and CEO, Asym 500 LLC

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The Evolution of the VIX

After the GFC, there were these aftershocks. And as you mentioned, there was the development of more tradable products around the VIX and specifically the VXX. In 2004, they launched Futures on the VIX, which allowed investors to take a position on where the VIX would be at a given date in the future. The problem with the VIX itself is that it's not a tradable asset. But back in the day, volatility was something that you could look at and infer from it maybe what people who are trading options think about the world.

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