Many investors treat the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, as a forward-looking market indicator. The VIX, colloquially known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” measures expected ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wall Street's fear gauge may not be so scary if you have an eye toward long-term investing. A key market fear indicator, the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX), recently had its biggest three-day spike of ...

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 ...

Market volatility is back with a vengeance, but don’t let a big spike in the VIX tempt you into buying stocks just yet. The Cboe Volatility Index, a measure of market volatility known as the stock ...

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 ...

The nostalgic discovery felt serendipitous, because stock market outlooks right now are as murky as ever. Major indexes are ...

Landing with all the force of a feather, Quantitative Easing (QE) 1.5 might as well have been QE Nothing. A day after being announced, the Fed's latest attempt to goose the economy sent the markets ...