Four decades of market experience from commodities and OEX options to UVXY premium selling. A trader who has seen every market cycle and built the tools to navigate the next one.
Michael Listman began trading in 1986 with commodities and equities, focusing on OEX options throughout the 1990s. In 2015, he began trading UVXY for premium collecting — a strategy that quickly became his primary focus and one he continues to evolve and refine in an ever-shifting market landscape.
A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Listman has founded several companies spanning commercial printing, consumer electronics retail, IT services, web programming, and real estate development. Today, Michael is dedicated full-time to trading as a volatility trader.
His decades of experience across multiple asset classes, combined with a hands-on entrepreneurial mindset, inform the tools and analytics behind CI Volatility.
Professional-grade tools that update in real time.
Level frequency, resolution times, futures correlation, and term structure analysis powered by 36+ years of VIX data.
Entry signals for long volatility positions.
Real-time anomaly detection that flags unusual patterns across volatility products and market structure.
Enter a number of days and instantly see projected decay for every leveraged and inverse ETF.
Enter any spike percentage and instantly see how it resolved across every ticker.
Enter two spike levels and see the conditional probability of continuation across every ticker.
Brute-forces 57,720 combinations per ticker to find the historically optimal spike trade.
Monthly return patterns for every ticker. Median and average returns, year-by-year breakdowns.
Maps the relationship between VIX moves and ETF price changes across different volatility regimes.
Full historical breakdown: intraday stats, fill timing, and every matching occurrence.
Scan for the highest-value options setups across multiple tickers in real time.
Historical probability engine that predicts next-day movement based on today's move.
20 technical indicators aggregated into one instant bullish/bearish read for any ticker.
Day-of-week return patterns for every leveraged and inverse ETF, backed by years of data.
Daily, weekly, and monthly move frequency analysis with VIX regime filtering.
Enter any number of days and see the record spike and crash for every ETF using intraday data.
A visual heatmap of volatility levels and changes across all tracked products.
See how stocks react before, during, and after earnings. Track overnight gaps, next-day moves, and forward returns across every major stock.
Every tool in the CI Volatility suite was built to answer a specific question that traders face every day.
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Not at all. The courses start from absolute zero and build progressively. The trackers are designed to be immediately useful whether you're a beginner or an experienced volatility trader.
In real time during market hours. Price, spike levels, VIX term structure, and all derived metrics auto-refresh without you needing to reload the page.
Yes. We're actively building new tools and courses. As a member, you get access to every new addition automatically — no extra cost, no upgrade required.