About Us

VelocityShares is dedicated to designing exchange-traded products (ETPs) and sophisticated strategies for knowledgeable institutional investors. The team is focused on developing tradable instruments that can enable institutional investors to manage risk and express short-term market views.

The team has significant experience across asset classes and on both the buy- and sell-sides of the financial markets. Their combined knowledge and insight is employed to develop innovative products.

Currency
VelocityShares’ suite of 10 currency exchange traded notes are designed to enable sophisticated investors to express highly leveraged daily market views on the US Dollar relative to another currency. The return of each ETN is based on the performance of its respective underlying VelocityShares daily 4x currency pair Index. Each ETN is an unsecured debt obligation of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc. and is guaranteed by Citigroup Inc.

U.S. Volatility (Delisted)
The initial suite of VelocityShares Notes focused on volatility. The suite of tactical Notes includes 2x leveraged long and inverse strategies on the S&P 500 VIX short-term or mid-term futures indices. The VelocityShares VIX Notes provide sophisticated institutional investors with vehicles for potentially implementing views on volatility and hedging risks.

Metals (Delisted)
VelocityShares' metals Notes suite includes leveraged long and leveraged inverse strategies in gold, and silver as measured by the S&P GSCI indices. Traders can utilize a variety of instruments (such as futures, swaps, and forwards) to seek to express views on gold, and silver. The advent of these leveraged long and inverse Notes gives sophisticated institutional investors an exchange traded product to potentially manage risk and express short-term market views.

Energy (Delisted)
VelocityShares' energy Notes suite includes leveraged long and leveraged inverse strategies in futures on natural gas, as measured by the S&P GSCI. While institutional investors and traders can utilize a variety of instruments (such as futures, swaps, and forwards) to express views on energy, these Notes offer sophisticated institutional investors a potential alternative to manage risk and express short-term market views.

All of the products discussed herein have certain risks. Investors should read the applicable prospectus and related supplements linked below, including the risk factors set forth therein, for additional information.