{"id":64454,"date":"2018-06-29T01:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64454"},"modified":"2018-06-29T01:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:14:47","slug":"hedge-fund-that-made-6000-on-vix-jump-bets-on-next-blow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/hedge-fund-that-made-6000-on-vix-jump-bets-on-next-blow-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund That Made 6,000% on VIX Jump Bets on Next Blow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A hedge fund that reaped an outrageous gain in February\u2019s vol-mageddon is eyeing a fresh target. Houndstooth Capital Management LLC secured a 6,000 percent return from a bearish bet on an exchange-traded product tied to calm markets. Now, the $7.5 million fund sees trouble in an ETF designed to profit from the opposite &#8212; turbulence in stocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-28\/hedge-fund-that-made-6-000-on-vix-surge-wagers-on-next-blow-up\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A hedge fund that reaped an outrageous gain in February\u2019s vol-mageddon is eyeing a fresh target. Houndstooth Capital Management LLC secured a 6,000 percent return from a bearish bet on an exchange-traded product tied to calm markets. Now, the [&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-64454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64454","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=64454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64455,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64454\/revisions\/64455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}