An unconventional hedge has been creating 'turbo-charged' returns for worried stock traders

Stock traders have been scurrying for downside protection amid heightened stock market volatility.
There's one unconventional strategy that's been providing outsized hedging returns for investors in recent weeks.
Downside hedges have been a stock investor's best friend over the past couple weeks as major US indexes have slipped to multi-month lows.
While some traders might have guarded their positions using contracts on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), which trades inversely to the S&P 500 r