{"id":54605,"date":"2016-09-30T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54605"},"modified":"2016-09-30T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:01:24","slug":"volatility-hedge-fund-sees-bull-market-in-fear-as-vix-bets-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/volatility-hedge-fund-sees-bull-market-in-fear-as-vix-bets-jump.html","title":{"rendered":"Volatility Hedge Fund Sees Bull Market in Fear as VIX Bets Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Beneath calm stocks, the volatility market is jumping.Take futures on the CBOE Volatility Index, whose volume surged 50 percent this month and is on pace for a record year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Belying the lull evidenced in the VIX itself, which has traded almost 30 percent below its historical average in September, six-month contracts on the index are priced about 40 percent higher and last month the gap hit its widest since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>All that\u2019s been money in the bank for Christopher Cole, the Austin, Texas-based fund manager whose Artemis Capital Management is known for stark pronouncements like \u201cvolatility is an instrument of truth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-29\/volatility-hedge-fund-sees-bull-market-in-fear-as-vix-bets-jump\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Beneath calm stocks, the volatility market is jumping.Take futures on the CBOE Volatility Index, whose volume surged 50 percent this month and is on pace for a record year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Belying the lull evidenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54605","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54606,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54605\/revisions\/54606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}