It’s a new territory for me as well. My first instinct was to buy a volatility index swap. But it turns out only people who know what they are doing trade those and nobody wants to sell me that.
I feel tempted to do day trading-like activities. Like I sold some of my S&P 500 puts on Monday as they’ve reached 400% gains, now I feel like I could buy some back today. It feels wrong and against everything one learns about investing, but the market is thrashing like a wounded animal.
I’ve already liquidated a big portion of my portfolio 6 weeks ago https://discussion.fool.com/t/investment-avenues-in-2025 and I think I’m mostly going to sit the madness out with a little derivate trading against the volatility on the side.