The Volatility ETF Snapshot tracks the 15 most-traded leveraged and inverse volatility, sector-bear, and short-commodity ETFs in real time. Each row exposes the four numbers traders actually care about on these decay products: current price, all-time low (ATL), current spike percentage above ATL, and days since the last ATL touch. YTD return and today's change round out the row so you can compare a fresh spike vs an ETF that's already given back most of its year.
Sort the table by Current Spike % to surface the ETFs running the furthest from their floor — historically the prime candidates for short-volatility decay trades. Sort by Days Since ATL to find the ETFs that just printed a fresh all-time low (0d) or that have been sitting at the floor for a while.
All 15 tickers update during U.S. market hours from live price data. The table aggregates leveraged VIX-futures products, inverse leveraged index ETFs, and sector-bear funds — all of which share the structural-decay property that makes ATL-spike tracking informative.
Current Spike % is the percent the ETF's current price sits ABOVE its all-time low. If UVXY's ATL is $10 and the current price is $130, the Current Spike % is +1,200%. Because these products structurally decay over time, a large spike percentage typically indicates the ETF has run far from its floor and may be a candidate for short-volatility positioning.
Leveraged volatility products like UVXY and VXX, and inverse leveraged ETFs like SQQQ, SPXU, and TZA, suffer from compounding decay (volatility drag), daily-reset rebalancing costs, and roll costs on the underlying futures. Over multi-year timeframes this drag pushes the price toward zero, with each fresh all-time low becoming the new baseline. That's why "spike percentage above ATL" is the most actionable read on these products.
Live prices, today's change, and YTD performance update on every page load and ticker refresh during U.S. market hours (9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. ET). Pre-market and after-hours quotes are also included when available. The all-time low itself is computed against the full multi-year daily candle history for each ticker, so the ATL value refreshes whenever a new low prints.
No. Leveraged and inverse ETFs are designed for short-term tactical positioning, not buy-and-hold. The compounding-decay property that creates the predictable ATL-spike-decay cycle ALSO means these products lose value over time when held through volatile or sideways markets. Always read the issuer prospectus for the specific decay mechanics.
After identifying spikes in the snapshot, open the Spike Analyzer to see how long similar spikes have historically taken to retest ATL, the Decay Projection to see the median forward-price path from this spike level, and the Spike Probability Ladder to see continuation odds at higher spike thresholds. The ETF All-Time Lows tool surfaces ETFs that JUST printed a fresh ATL.