On Monday, Barclays PLC BCS announced it would be suspending the sale and issuance of two popular exchange-traded notes (ETNs) due to capacity constraints. After trading in tandem throughout most of ...

VXX is an exchange-traded note (ETN), not an ETF, meaning it's backed by Barclays and carries additional bankruptcy risk. The fund tracks short-term VIX futures, making it highly sensitive to ...

Investors tend to have varying ideas about whether to buy/sell/deleverage during different volatility paradigms. I ran a study using VXX to predict SPY performance, finding that where VXX lies in its ...

The stock market doesn't advance in a straight line, and some people try to profit from the volatility. When it comes to getting some insight into expected market volatility, many investors look at ...

Days before Thanksgiving, Kris Sidial, a co-founder at volatility arbitrage fund The Ambrus Group, told investors the firm was betting that extreme price moves in some volatility-tracking exchange ...

A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Barclays PLC and its banking unit of violating federal securities laws through the sale of billions of dollars in unregistered structured ...

American equity markets fell off a cliff in Thursday trading as a number of factors–ranging from worries over Spain to unrest in the Arabian peninsula–sent stocks reeling. The Dow was down by over 228 ...