VIXY Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (ProShares Vix Short-Term Futures ETF | ARCA:VIXY)

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is a widely followed measure of the expected volatility of the S&P 500. Since the VIX is not directly investable S&P 500 volatility exposure is often achieved through VIX futures. Each of the VIX futures indexes measures the movements of a combination of VIX futures and is designed to track changes in the expectation for VIX over a specific time window in the future. As a result the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index and VIXY can be expected to perform differently than the VIX.

ProShares Vix Short-Term Futures ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VIXY.

As of March 4, 2026, VIXY stock price declined to $28.53 with 4,115,356 million shares trading.

VIXY has a beta of -2.83, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VIXY has a correlation of 0.65 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VIXY has a market cap of $238.69 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VIXY traded as high as $243.20 and as low as $24.81.

VIXY has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -41.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +18.6%. In the last 3 month period, VIXY fell short of the market, returning -6.2%, while SPY returned +0.5%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VIXY has outperformed the stock market by returning +4.5%, while SPY returned +0.3%.

VIXY support price is $28.11 and resistance is $30.95 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VIXY shares will trade within this expected range on the day.