4 Things You Must Do To Survive Volatile Markets

9 Feb 2018 · 30 min
30:26

Adrian Reid walks through four survival rules for volatile markets: keep long-term perspective, use a systematic trading system to avoid emotional decisions, skip short-volatility trades that look like sure things, and avoid overleveraging during calm periods. Recent examples include the VIX spiking to 50 and an inverse-volatility ETF collapsing.

Questions this video answers

About 10% (as of recording).

Around 50 (just over 50 at peak).

From almost US$20,000 down to about US$8,000 (a drop of well over 50%).

It fell from a high near ~150 to near-zero (quoted as down to ~5) and was closed by its issuer.

About US$4 million (reported).

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