TVIX Trades One Million Shares for First Time

Launched at the end of November 2010, the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN (TVIX) has been the most popular of the volatility-based ETPs to hit the market in the past six months. Today TVIX hit a new milestone – barely halfway into the trading session – by surpassing one million shares for the first time.

Back in the middle of December, I predicted TVIX “will hit a tipping point and become the darling of day traders” in 2011. Frankly, I am a little surprised that it has taken more than five months to hit the one million share mark, but now that TVIX is adding liquidity, I would expect that day traders, hedge funds and other short-term trading operations will become much more active in this product.

Below is a snapshot of the intraday movement of TVIX taken from Bloomberg for iPad.

Related posts:

• TVIX Finally Getting Due as Day Trading Rocket Fuel
• VIX and More and the 2011 Bespoke Roundtable
• Impressive Launch for Sextet of New Volatility ETNs from VelocityShares
• VelocityShares Jumping in to the VIX ETP Space with Leveraged and Inverse Products
• Bloomberg for the iPad
  

[graphic: Bloomberg for iPad]

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