A great week of profitable trades! This week may turn out P/L over the past month positive. For that analysis, you'll have to wait until next Saturday.

In the trade IDEAS post published on August 10, and tacked on to the back of TWIM for August 13, I laid out the game plan for profiting off of the North Korea spike in the $VIX. Well, those positions are profiting by a whole bunch today.

$VXX - This was an easy call. It...

Right now the market is having a little sell-off ($SPX down -28.02 or -1.13% at 12:55pm) and so that means that IV has spiked across the market and so has the $VIX and it's affiliated ETFs like $VXX, $UVXY, etc. This is happening because of threats of war from North Ko...