VIX stretches

Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez talk about taking advantage of VIX stretches in their excellent book, “Short Term Trading Strategies that Work“, and from that discussion they develop the VIX Stretches strategy. The strategy is based on the idea that when the VIX gets stretched above its simple moving average by a certain amount, and it stays stretched for a certain number of days, the statistical likelihood of a market advance increases, giving edge to people buying the market.

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