A dedicated analysis suite for the VIX itself, built around the fact that VIX is mean-reverting rather than structurally decaying. Level frequency, resolution times, futures correlation, and term structure analysis powered by 36+ years of daily VIX data combined with real-time futures prices.
The Level Frequency tab shows how often VIX has reached key levels from 15 to 80, with average frequency, percentage of days at or above each level, and average days per year. Toggle between intraday highs and closing prices, and add custom levels for precise thresholds that matter to your strategy.
The Resolution Time tab answers the follow-up question: once VIX crosses above a level, how many trading days does it typically take to resolve back below? This gives you a data-driven framework for timing entries and exits during elevated volatility instead of guessing when the spike will fade.
The Futures Correlation tab breaks down what happens when spot VIX and futures (VX1, VX2, VX30) diverge or converge on the same day, with next-day and 5-day forward returns for each pattern. The Term Structure tab analyzes contango vs. backwardation regimes and their historical implications. Both tabs support VIX regime filtering to isolate behavior across different volatility environments.
A systematic signal engine that detects favorable conditions for long volatility entries by analyzing VIX price action, RSI dynamics, momentum oscillators, volatility expansion, and put/call sentiment in real time. When all conditions align, a signal fires on the chart and appears in the Vol Radar.
The engine runs two independent signal tiers. The Alpha signal requires 14 simultaneous conditions to be met — covering VIX level, RSI crossovers, WaveTrend momentum, volatility expansion ratios, SPX weakness, and PCVI put/call thresholds. The Beta signal uses a lighter 5-condition filter focused on PCVI trend, IV percentile momentum, and VIX level to catch broader setups.
The chart displays SPX price history with signal markers overlaid at every historical detection point, giving you a visual record of exactly when each signal fired and how the market moved afterward. A collapsible conditions dashboard shows which of the underlying conditions are currently met or unmet.
When either signal fires, it automatically surfaces as an alert in the Vol Radar on the main dashboard and is included in the daily email sent to all members — so you never miss an entry window even if you're not watching the tool directly.
Real-time anomaly detection engine that continuously scans the full price history of every tracked ticker and surfaces statistically significant signals — unusual ATL gaps, overdue spikes, spike level hits, pullbacks, decay acceleration, VIX structure shifts, and more.
Each alert includes the historical data behind it, so you can immediately see why a signal fired and how similar situations resolved in the past. The engine checks every ticker on every page load, comparing current conditions against the full statistical distribution of that ticker's history.
Signals are grouped by type and severity. Some are structural (term structure inversions, unusual contango compression), some are price-based (ATL gap percentiles, spike level breakthroughs), and some are temporal (overdue spike alerts based on historical frequency). New signal types are added as the engine evolves.
Vol Radar lives on the member dashboard, giving you an at-a-glance view of everything unusual happening across the volatility landscape before you drill into any individual ticker.
Every leveraged and inverse ETF gets its own dedicated tracker page with a live chart, real-time price, current spike level from all-time lows, cycle highs, VIX term structure, and a full suite of built-in analysis tools.
Each tracker is purpose-built for its specific product. The chart updates in real time during market hours, and every data panel reflects the full price history of that ticker going back to inception. Spike levels, decay metrics, and forward return analytics are all calculated from actual historical data.
Built-in tools include the Spike Analyzer, Spike Probability Ladder, ETF Decay Projection, Expected Spike Table, Time to ATL, and Seasonal Patterns — all pre-loaded with the current ticker's data so you never have to switch between pages. Every analysis tool on the tracker is the same tool available standalone, just embedded directly into the chart page for faster access.
Dedicated trackers are available for UVXY, UVIX, VXX, SQQQ, SPXU, SOXS, and ZSL — with more tickers being added as the platform evolves.
Enter any spike percentage and instantly pull up every historical instance where a ticker rallied that much above its running all-time low. Each spike is tracked as an episode — from the moment it crosses the threshold to the moment a new ATL is set — with forward return stats, win rates, and the most extreme outcomes over any holding period you choose.
The tool also shows the drop levels before each major rally. For spikes above 20%, you see the average drawdown from peak before the last 10%, 20%, 30%, and 50% rallies — helping you gauge how much further a fade could go before the next bounce.
Switch to Cycle Analysis to browse every completed spike-to-ATL cycle with an interactive candlestick chart. Each cycle tracks pullback frequency at multiple thresholds, recovery timing, and peak-to-trough details. Hover over the rally drop boxes to highlight the corresponding zone on the chart.
Compare results across all seven tickers side by side, with color-coded tables showing which products fade fastest, spike hardest, and offer the best short entry points at each spike level.
Projects how much each leveraged and inverse ETF is expected to decay over a given number of trading days or by a specific target date. The projections are grounded in actual historical decay rates calculated from the full price history of each product.
The tool uses a multi-layer framework: spike-adjusted projections that account for whether the ticker recently experienced a volatility spike, ATL-based projections that factor in how far the current price sits from its all-time low, a combined projection integrating both signals, and a baseline projection using simple historical averages.
This layered approach matters because decay is not constant. A ticker sitting 200% above its ATL after a recent spike decays very differently than one grinding near all-time lows in a calm market. By conditioning on current market state, the projections reflect what actually tends to happen from similar starting points.
Use this when you need to estimate where a position might land over your holding period. Whether you're sizing a short volatility trade or projecting a decay target for an exit, this tool gives you a data-driven range of outcomes rather than a single guess.
Enter a "from" and "to" spike percentage above all-time low, and the tool calculates the historical probability that a ticker which reached the first level went on to reach the second level within the same episode — before making a new all-time low.
Each spike is tracked as an episode: it begins when the price crosses the "from" threshold and ends when a new ATL is set. If the price reaches the "to" level at any point during that episode, it counts as a hit. The tool reports the probability along with timing stats — average, median, shortest, and longest number of days to reach the target.
This is critical for understanding escalation risk. If UVXY has spiked 50% from its ATL, what are the odds it reaches 100%? The answer isn't a guess — it's computed from every historical episode where the ticker crossed that first level.
Traders use the Spike Ladder to set realistic profit targets on long volatility positions, assess the probability of further upside before fading a spike, and understand how quickly escalation typically happens when it does occur.
A suite of backtesting tools for testing strategies on real historical data. Moving average crossovers, day-of-week timing, spike entries, and more — each with equity curves, trade logs, drawdown analysis, and a Find Best Combination optimizer.
Includes the Spike Backtester for leveraged ETF spike entries, the Moving Average Backtester for price cross and golden cross strategies on any equity, and the Day of Week Backtester for weekday timing analysis.
Displays historical monthly return patterns for each ticker in a color-coded heatmap and accompanying bar chart. Green months have historically delivered positive returns, red months negative — with color intensity reflecting the magnitude of the average move.
Toggle between median and average returns to see whether seasonal patterns are consistent or skewed by outliers. Median returns are more robust to one-off extreme events, while averages capture the full impact of those tail moves.
Seasonality patterns exist in volatility products for structural reasons — quarterly rebalancing, options expiration cycles, tax-loss selling, and summer liquidity dynamics all create recurring tendencies. This tool makes those patterns visible at a glance across every month and ticker.
Use this to understand whether your entry timing aligns with or fights historical seasonal headwinds. A short volatility position entered in a historically strong month for vol ETFs faces an uphill battle that a well-timed entry in a weak month avoids entirely.
Quantifies how UVXY, UVIX, and VXX historically respond to VIX point moves, stratified by the VIX level at the time of the move. The relationship between VIX and vol ETFs is not fixed — a 2-point VIX spike from 14 to 16 produces a very different ETF response than a 2-point spike from 30 to 32.
The tool displays a heatmap of historical beta estimates across VIX level bands, built from years of daily data. Each cell shows the median ETF return for a given magnitude of VIX move within a given VIX regime, revealing how sensitivity shifts as volatility rises and falls.
A custom lookup lets you enter any two VIX closing prices (a "from" and "to") and instantly see the estimated ETF move based on the historical relationship for that regime. This is useful for scenario planning — if VIX goes from 18 to 25, approximately how much would UVXY move?
Understanding regime-dependent sensitivity is essential for position sizing. The advertised leverage multiple (2x for UVXY/UVIX) is a rough guide, but actual daily moves can far exceed or fall short of that multiple depending on where VIX sits and how the futures curve is shaped.
A historical probability engine that predicts next-day market movement based on today's move. Enter any ticker, see today's return, and instantly get the statistical breakdown of what happened the next day on every similar historical move — green/red probability, average return, median return, highest and lowest outcomes.
Range mode finds all historical days where the ticker moved within a symmetric window around today's return. If SPX is down −1.5% today, it pulls every day SPX moved between −2% and −1% (with an adjustable window from 0.10% to 5%) and shows what happened the following day.
Custom mode lets you set any percentage threshold. Enter −3% and the tool finds every day the ticker dropped 3% or worse, then shows next-day outcomes. Works in both directions — positive thresholds find all days with gains at or above the level.
Results include a full distribution histogram of next-day returns, sample size, and color-coded probability cards. Works with any stock, ETF, or index — including leveraged and inverse products.
Find the safest strikes to sell puts and calls based on historical win rates. Scans every expiration date and strike price, calculates the probability of the stock reaching each level, and shows the annualized return on buying power for each option.
Analyzes what happens after a stock gaps up or down at the open. Enter any ticker to see today's opening gap, then get a full statistical breakdown of how similar historical gaps played out — intraday behavior, gap fill timing, and return distributions.
The tool calculates today's gap as the percentage difference between today's open and yesterday's close, then finds every historical day with a gap of similar magnitude within an adjustable range window.
Intraday stats show what percentage of similar gaps closed green vs. red, whether the gap held or faded, and the average open-to-close return. Gap fill timing reveals how often the gap fills within the same day, one trading week, or 30 trading days, with a cumulative fill rate chart.
Includes a distribution histogram of open-to-close returns and supports VIX regime filtering to isolate behavior during different volatility environments.
See how the top 100 stocks move before, during, and after earnings. Compare earnings gaps, gap up rates, and forward returns across every major stock in one sortable table.
Click any stock to see its full earnings history going back 10+ years with exact report dates and AM/PM timing. Each quarter shows the pre-earnings gap, earnings gap, next-day move, and 10-day forward return with price logs.
The ALL tab ranks 100 stocks by average earnings gap size, gap up rate, and post-earnings drift. All calculations adjust automatically for before-market-open vs after-market-close reports.
Enter any number of trading days and the tool finds the single largest rally and the single largest decline ever recorded for every ticker over that window. Results are computed using intraday highs and lows for maximum precision.
For each ticker, you see the exact magnitude of the most extreme up move and down move, the dates they occurred, and the starting and ending prices. This gives you the true outer boundaries of what these products have done historically over your chosen timeframe.
The value here is calibration. If you're holding a 5-day position in UVXY and want to know the worst-case scenario, this tool shows you the single worst 5-day drawdown in the product's entire history. That context is essential for position sizing and setting realistic stop levels.
It also surfaces moves you might not remember or expect. Many traders underestimate the magnitude of tail events in leveraged products — this tool makes those extremes concrete and undeniable, which is exactly the kind of information that should inform risk management.
Find the longest consecutive winning and losing streaks for any ticker across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly timeframes. See current active streaks and adjust the threshold to find streaks of moves above a specific percentage.
Shows historical return patterns broken down by day of the week (Monday through Friday) for each ticker. The heatmap and bar chart reveal whether certain weekdays have consistently delivered stronger or weaker returns over the full data history.
Toggle between median and average returns to assess the robustness of any pattern. A weekday that shows a strong median but weak average may have a few extreme outlier days pulling the numbers — the tool makes this distinction easy to spot.
Weekday effects in volatility products are driven by real structural forces: Monday gaps from weekend risk repricing, Wednesday FOMC announcements, Thursday jobless claims, and Friday options expiration and portfolio rebalancing. These recurring events create measurable day-of-week biases.
This tool is most useful for fine-tuning entry and exit timing. If you already have a directional view, knowing which day of the week historically favors that direction can help you choose the best day to execute rather than trading blindly.
See how often any ticker moves beyond a given threshold on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Set your threshold and instantly see the historical frequency.
Toggle between daily, weekly, and monthly periods to match your trading timeframe. The year-by-year chart shows whether move frequencies are increasing or decreasing over time.
Filter by VIX regime to see how frequencies shift in calm vs elevated volatility environments. Essential for options sellers who need to know the real odds before choosing a strike distance.
Instant bullish or bearish read on any stock. Enter a ticker and get a single overall signal — Strong Buy, Buy, Neutral, Sell, or Strong Sell — derived from 20 key technical indicators across short, medium, and long term timeframes.
Indicators are grouped into four categories: Volatility, Short Term, Medium Term, and Long Term. Each category shows its own consensus reading, and every individual indicator displays its current value, threshold, and whether it’s signaling bullish or bearish.
The overall verdict is calculated as a weighted percentage of bullish vs bearish signals, presented on a visual gauge that makes the current sentiment immediately obvious. Works on any ticker available through Yahoo Finance — stocks, ETFs, indices, and more.
Use this as a quick pre-trade sanity check or a starting point for deeper analysis. Instead of manually checking RSI, moving averages, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and other indicators one by one, get them all in a single glance with a clear directional consensus.
A single-view performance matrix showing returns across all tickers and timeframes — 1-day, 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, YTD, and 1-year — in one color-coded grid. Green cells mean up, red means down, and darker colors indicate larger moves.
The power of this tool is simultaneous comparison. Instead of checking each ticker individually, you see the entire volatility and inverse ETF universe at once, making it immediately obvious which products are outperforming or underperforming across every timeframe.
Cross-timeframe analysis reveals regime information that single-timeframe views miss. A ticker that is red on the 1-day but green on the 1-week and 1-month is in a short-term pullback within a larger uptrend — a very different situation than one that is red across all timeframes.
Use this as a daily starting point to quickly assess the state of the volatility universe. It answers the question "what's moving and how much?" in a single glance, saving you from cycling through multiple charts and data sources.
A free, full-screen live VIX chart with real-time price updates during market hours, plus integrated futures term structure data showing all monthly VX contracts along the maturity curve.
The term structure visualization makes it immediately clear whether the market is in contango (futures trading above spot, indicating expected mean reversion and active roll decay) or backwardation (futures below spot, signaling acute near-term fear and reduced or reversed decay).
The chart also displays the interpolated VX30 level and the contango/backwardation spread as a percentage, giving you the key numbers that drive daily roll yield for products like UVXY and VXX without needing a separate futures data subscription.
Use this for real-time market monitoring. The shape of the VIX futures curve is one of the most important inputs for any volatility strategy — it determines whether roll decay is working for you or against you, and how aggressively the market is pricing near-term risk relative to longer-term expectations.