{"id":62405,"date":"2018-02-21T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62405"},"modified":"2018-02-20T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:52:59","slug":"global-sigma-captures-februarys-long-vol-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/global-sigma-captures-februarys-long-vol-trade.html","title":{"rendered":"Global Sigma captures February&#8217;s long-vol trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Florida-based Global Sigma rode February&#8217;s volatility to new highs. The firm&#8217;s AGSF strategy is up +2.8 percent through February 16 and +4.2 percent YTD and its Vol\/Arb program is up +14 percent through February 16 and 19.6 percent YTD.Global Sigma CIO Hanming Rao tells Opalesque that he opted to go long-volatility in the second half of 2017 and maintained his positioning through the start of the year. That bet paid off earlier this month when the VIX hit new highs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/667655\/Global_Sigma_captures_trade765.html\">To read this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Florida-based Global Sigma rode February&#8217;s volatility to new highs. The firm&#8217;s AGSF strategy is up +2.8 percent through February 16 and +4.2 percent YTD and its Vol\/Arb program is up +14 percent through February 16 and 19.6 percent YTD.Global [&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-62405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405","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=62405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62406,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62405\/revisions\/62406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}