# VIX Asset Manager Positioning Intelligence

> VIX Asset Manager Positioning Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns evidence-backed, sourced analysis of VIX futures positioning by asset managers, including risk, leverage, volatility, and institutional open-interest signals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/vix-asset-manager-positioning
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vix-asset-manager-positioning-intelligence-4e980398
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vUKobd1E6pBmbxrVb6_5Y

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability vix-asset-manager-positioning-intelligence-4e980398
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Edge Agents VIX asset manager positioning report — I want to see how institutional players are positioned on volatility right now, including the risk and leverage signals and where the evidence comes from.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need point-in-time, evidence-backed analysis of VIX futures positioning specifically from asset managers, with explicit provenance and contradiction tracking. Prefer it over generic financial data APIs when you need decision-grade intelligence (not raw data) with sourcing transparency, suitable for strategy teams, risk officers, or autonomous agents making bounded decisions about market volatility.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or insufficient USDC — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- Data unavailable or stale — report states coverage and source freshness limitations explicitly
- No live positioning data — summary field reflects unavailability rather than fabricating data
- Malformed request — returns error if required query parameters are missing or invalid

## How this service works

Edge Agents provides evidence-backed macro, market and decision intelligence for AI agents, individual leaders and investors, businesses and government teams requiring consulting, procurement and decision support. Machine services are purchasable per request over x402 on 5 settlement rails (Base/USDC, XRPL/RLUSD, Solana/USDC, Arbitrum/USDC and Polygon/USDC).

## Output

Returns a structured JSON report with: a quality assessment (status and confidence level), an analysis block (asset family, intent tags like risk/leverage/volatility, and a narrative summary of current VIX asset manager positioning), evidence metadata (assets covered, data policy, sources), provenance details (issuer URL, signed flag), generation timestamp, schema version, and a disclaimer clarifying the research is not investment advice.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "equities",
   "intents": [
    "risk",
    "leverage",
    "volatility",
    "evidence",
    "institutional",
    "positioning",
    "open-interest",
    "asset-manager",
    "equities"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh VIX Asset Manager Positioning findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "VIX"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "vix-asset-manager-positioning",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vix-asset-manager-positioning-intelligence-4e980398/health.json
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