Because this vehicle was designed to tempt suckers into buying puts and calls, we don’t bet on it very often. Only when it has fallen to a compelling, precisely targeted low do we consider buying options, and even then we buy only cheap ones with just a week or two left on them. This time, a 15.66 target that seemed too enticing to pass up drew our interest. On Friday, $200 worth of calls we’d bought a week earlier to satisfy a gambling jones vanished in a puff of smoke when they expired worthless. Looking ahead, I see little likelihood of jumping back in until such time as the 9.92 target shown is hit or closely approached. The S&Ps would probably have to rise well above 3400, and the Dow above 30,000, before this happens. It seems incredible, but that’s what the chart says, and it says it clearly.
VXX – S&P VIX Short-Term (Last:15.01)
