Thanks Clive for your thoughts. I really appreciate them.
This past weekend I read a little about volatility and XIV-VXX. Decided to look at some charts to see how they did over the long run. It would appear from the charts I looked at that XIV was created sometime around the end of 2010....not much history going for it. It had a very large decline in August-September 2011 with that large market correction. Since it does not appear to have been around for the 2007-2009 bear market I thought I would see if anyone had AIM'd it and how they fared with an AIM program using XIV.