Bookkeeping: Closing iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures (VXX)

By Trader Mark
09 December 2009 @ 10:41 am EDT

As proposed in our initial purchase of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures (VXX) this is one flawed instrument, much like the double and triple ETFs.  I wanted to see how it would act on a volatile day... yesterday the VIX jumped 7%+, and VXX gained just over 2% cheating me out of nearly 5% of return (yesterday alone!) and defeating the whole purpose of this instrument. 

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