One Year Blogiversary!

Today marks exactly one year since I decided to launch VIX and More as a place to archive some of my thinking on volatility and the markets.

There have been times when I would have been better served to spend additional time and energy to do more research, analysis, system development, etc., but on balance, having a blog has been more fun than work and the exchange of ideas via comments and e-mail has had a positive impact on my trading.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this site by reading, commenting, and linking to some of what I have had to say. Particular thanks to those blogs who have sent the most traffic my way:

• Daily Options Report
• Abnormal Returns
• The dk Report
• Headline Charts
• Trading Goddess
• Chris Perruna
• The Kirk Report
• The Global Liquidity Blog
• TraderFeed
• The Big Picture

What have readers found most compelling on this site over the course of the past year? Of the 422 posts that 117,000+ unique visitors have had a chance to review during my first year, here are the top 25 most read posts:

1. A Sentiment Primer (Long)
2. Correlation Ideation
3. How to Find the Spiker Before the Earnings Announcement
4. BuyWrite Index as a Timing Tool?
5. Commercials Get Long the VIX in a Big Way
6. High Positive Correlation Between VIX and SPX Often Signals Market Weakness
7. When to Short China?
8. A Baker’s Dozen of Favorite Indicators
9. Waiting for Godot
10. A Dozen Things My Trading Accounts Are Thankful For This Year
11. What My Dog Can Tell Us About Volatility
12. Implied Volatility and Earnings Spikers
13. Drilling Down on Sector Performance
14. Brian Overby on Trading VIX Options
15. First Annual VIX and More Blog Disclaimer Awards
16. The McClellan Summation Index
17. Thinking About the VXV
18. The Incredible Shrinking VIX
19. Using the VIX as a Timing Tool for the SPY
20. VIX Price Movement Around FOMC Meetings
21. A Challenge to Two Things You Think You Know About the VIX
22. VIX March OTM Calls
23. What’s in the FXI?
24. The Promethian Trader
25. Greenspan and the China Bubble