{"id":23909,"date":"2011-08-08T03:57:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2011-08-08T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:57:41","slug":"in-crisis-mode-hedge-fund-managers-turn-to-the-vix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/in-crisis-mode-hedge-fund-managers-turn-to-the-vix.html","title":{"rendered":"In Crisis Mode, Hedge Fund Managers Turn To The VIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Looks like the biggest derivatives trade of the week is buying VIX options. That\u2019s the way most hedge fund managers are going to protect themselves from wild swings in the market, expected all week long thanks in part to the US credit downgrade to AA+ from AAA by Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s on Friday, and the ongoing sovereign debt drama in the eurozone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy option strategy is the VIX and only the VIX,\u201d says Joel Smolen at Axion Capital, a San Rafael, Calif hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/kenrapoza\/2011\/08\/07\/in-crisis-mode-hedge-fund-managers-turn-to-the-vix\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Looks like the biggest derivatives trade of the week is buying VIX options. That\u2019s the way most hedge fund managers are going to protect themselves from wild swings in the market, expected all week long thanks in part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23911,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions\/23911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}