Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Mini-VIX Futures Coming on March 2nd

The CBOE is out with a press release confirming that mini-VIX futures will begin trading next Monday.

The mini-VIX is 1/10 the size of the standard VIX futures contract, making the mini-VIX much more approachable for the typical retail investor.

Posted by Bill Luby at 12:31 PM

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

does anyone know if trading in these contracts will effect the larger vix contracts as far as liquidity is concerned?

February 25, 2009 at 6:59 PM

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