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Is This a Mark-to-Market Loss?
When you're trading an option, you're buying or selling a certain price that corresponds to a certain payoff. The VIX is actually the market price of something called a one month variance swap on the S&P 500. And entering into a super negatively asymmetric trade for an extremely small limited upside just doesn't make sense in light of a possible loss we could lose.