Keep in mind that the monetary and fiscal authorities consider it almost a prime directive to keep volatility low. When they see it and identify the cause (e.g. regional bank solvency), they move to stamp it out immediately with programs that are sometimes open but are mostly unseen (various types of asset purchases called by many names but all amounting to QE).  Vol is the fire and they are the fire fighters....aka Vol Controllers. 

I'm not sure what you mean?  the VIX SPY system went long because the VIX closed back inside its Bollinger Bands - The market is going to do whatever it wants, maybe the lows are in and we got back to highs in a V move. Or maybe that completed wave A down, and we are going to form a lower high wave B, then get another move lower in C - too early to say. That said - my guess is a wave B should produce a big enough bounce to allow most of these to close out on that bounce

also - the volatliity systems - I have 8 of them - as I discussed on the weekend, I do not current email out trade notications on those like I do for the SPY and ES mean reversion systems. I commented that I would like to eventually add those to the website as well - have them completely automated where they send out the trade notifications automatically just like the KISS systems do