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Question asked 12/04/2021

How to buy volatility

Do you have an alternative to iPath S&P500 VIX short-term futures (VXX US) $US10.77

Nabtrade don’t appear to offer this ETF?

Regards, Scott Donald

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Hi Scott,

All listed in the US, VXX is the biggest followed by VIXY then VIXM, although I suspect if VXX does not come up the others won’t. I’m not across any others unfortunately and there are not volatility based funds / exposures that I know of on the ASX. There were a few other questions about this last week, hope this covers it for the others.

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