The VIX ended last week just above 16, bringing it to its highest level in 2024. What does this tell us about investor sentiment, and how does this compare to previous market cycles? Let’s take a ...

Since Wall Street's "fear index" spiked in April, even casual investors have watched it nervously for signs of whether to buy, hold, or run for their lives. The CBOE Volatility Index, commonly known ...

A vertical call spread is a terrible way to hedge against a volatility eruption Over the past six months, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has averaged a reading of 11.58 -- lower than its one-year ...

I hear it all the time with the volatility index (VIX): 'the indicator is broken' or 'it doesn't work properly'. Indicators such as the VIX are simply telling us where money is flowing at certain ...

Most investors have never heard of the three-month volatility index, which is known as the VXV. But the relationship between the CBOE three-month volatility index and the options exchange's more ...

Darell Huff wrote in his 1954 book 'How to Lie with Statistics', "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything". I am about to do just that with the Volatility Index. The VIX ...

Does a low VIX predict rising stocks or low volatility? The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has fallen to extremely low levels. The current level of the VIX is easily within the lowest decile of closing ...