Tracking SVXY historical volatility helps you see how much ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF -0.5x Shares's stock price has actually moved over past periods, giving you a baseline to judge whether current option premiums are fair, cheap, or expensive. While implied volatility tells you what the market expects, ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF -0.5x Shares's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor SVXY 30 day historical volatility alongside longer lookback windows and spot the moments when realized and implied diverge.
Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of an underlying's past returns, typically measured over rolling windows like 10, 20, 30, or 60 days. The SVXY 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF -0.5x Shares's HV to its implied volatility reveals the volatility risk premium — when IV sits well above HV, option sellers tend to have an edge; when HV runs hot relative to IV, buyers may be underpaying for movement.
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to one-half the inverse (-0.5x) of the daily performance of the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index.
Sizing a long premium trade, modeling a covered call, or hunting volatility arbitrage all come back to one question: how much has the stock actually moved? Our scanner puts ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF -0.5x Shares's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where SVXY HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the SVXY 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.
