The Option Block 1508: It's All About Meat...and ETFs!!!

Option-strategy ETFs have scaled to roughly $400 billion AUM, with FLEX option volume up roughly 1,000x in a decade, reshaping retail and advisor portfolio construction.

• VIX kisses 17: Market rebounded from a blood-red start-of-week selloff (S&P -1%, Nasdaq -2%) with VIX cash briefly touching 17 and VVIX hitting 93-98 before retreating as Dow rallied 0.8-1.1%.
• Option-strategy ETF boom: Henry Schwartz said defined-outcome and 'Boomer Candy' income ETFs now manage roughly $400 billion, increasingly used by wealth advisors as core portfolio holdings, built via FLEX options (2.1 million contracts/day, up from 2,000-3,000 a decade ago).

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