Every year I tabulate the most-read posts in this space and as the halfway mark falls on a weekend this year and in the midst of considerable turmoil in Europe, China and the United States, I thought I would provide a mid-year update for those who may be interested in doing some weekend reading.

The posts below represent those that have been read by the highest number of unique readers in 2012. Farther down there are links to similar lists going back to 2008, along with several other “best of” type posts that I have flagged for archival purposes.

For the record, each year I also attach the hall of fame label to a handful of posts that I believe have particularly compelling and/or original content, regardless of readership.

1. Will TVIX Go To Zero?
2. Volatility Becomes Unhinged on Friday
3. A Million SPX Contracts Traded Today…A Contrarian Timing Signal
4. Four Key Drivers of the Price of TVIX
5. Credit Suisse Suspends Creation Units in TVIX: What It Means
6. All About UVXY
7. Who Is Trading TVIX?
8. What the VIX Kitchen Sink Chart Says
9. Natural Gas, Contango and UNG
10. A VIX of 15!?! Meet the New Reality
11. VXX Options Calm After Second Highest Volume Day Ever
12. Third Steepest First-Second Month VIX Futures Contango Ever
13. Dynamic VIX ETPs as Long-Term Hedges
14. TVIX Premium to Indicative Value Creeping Back Up
15. Implications of a Positively Correlated SPX and VIX
16. Putting the Recent 2.6% SPX Pullback in Historical Context
17. TVIX Creation Units Return; What It Means for Investors
18. Geography, Focus and Strategy
19. The Story of VIX ETPs Relative to Their Intraday Indicative Values
20. A Look at Pullbacks of the 2009-2012 Bull Market
21. Is TVIX Now Just a More Docile UVXY?
22. The VIX-VXX Minotaur Trade
23. Five Years of VIX and More
24. The Ups and Downs of the New Premium in TVIX
25. An Updated Field Guide to VIX ETPS
    

Related posts:

• Top Posts of 2011
• Top Posts of 2010
• Top Posts of 2009
• Top Posts of 2008
• One Year Blogiversary! (includes top 25 posts of 2007)
• The 1000th Post
• Five Years of VIX and More
• The Post of the Month: An Informal History of VIX and More

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