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Protecting Against A September Volatility Spike

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Protecting Against A September Volatility Spike

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VIX is a real-time index that represents the market expectation for near-term volatility in the S&amp;P500 index.</p><p>Investors and traders have long used VIX as a measure of the level of risk, fear or stress in the market.</p><p>The <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/VXX\">iPath S&amp;P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN </a> is a volatility exchange traded note (ETF) and behaves differently to a regular ETF. VXX typically sees large price increase when the S&amp;P500 tanks. However, most of the time it slowly but surely drops in price. Take a look at a long-term chart and you’ll see what I mean.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5a898da51c0e93038159089f99cb1e36\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p>As traders, we can also use VXX options to place trades that benefit from either rising or falling volatility.</p><h3>Buying VXX Call Options To Protect Against A Volatility Spike</h3><p>Some traders will buy VXX call options as a method of protecting against rising volatility. Let’s look at a couple of different examples.</p><p>A long call option trade gives the buyer of the option the right to purchase a certain stock at a certain price (strike price) up until a certain date (expiration date).</p><p>Suppose an investor is worried about a market drop and associated volatility spike between now and mid-September.</p><p>The investor could purchase a VXX September 16 call option with a strike price of 23. 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