Holy f***ing s***
Courtesy of Joshua M Brown
New York Times today:
Each morning, at the market’s open, Seth M. Golden, a former logistics manager at a Target store, fires up the computer in his home office in northern Florida and does what he has done for years: Put on bets that Wall Street’s index of volatility, the VIX, will keep falling.
It has been a lucrative strategy as the so-called fear gauge has been, outside of the occasional spike, largely fearless — confounding experts by sloping persistently downward and in the process making Mr. Golden a multimillionaire.
Won’t be long now. Hope your portfolio’s in order.
I’ll let you know when my mom starts shorting vol, free of charge.