Wall Street's so-called "fear gauge" slipped Friday, with investors cheering the May jobs report. The Cboe Volatility index, ...

My insight on the VIX has been steeply purchased ... Since my bearish call, the VIX has hit its lowest level since January 2020 and then got even lower today! Furthermore, the VIX spikes when ...

At its most basic, the VIX catalogs how sizable the price swings are within the S&P 500. This means the more dramatic the price swings, the higher the level of volatility, and while this sounds ...

Wall Street's fear gauge fell to its lowest level in 3 years just as a new bull market hits stocks. The decline in the VIX suggests that the stock market has entered a regime of low volatility ...

Closing at that level would leave the gauge, which trades under the ticker symbol VIX, at its lowest finish since late December. Major U.S. stock indexes including the S&P 500 were down Friday ...

Volatility-linked ETFs like VIXY, VXX, and UVXY are gaining appeal as the VIX drops, but could offer big gains if fear ...

A low VIX means option traders are not expecting much market volatility over the next 30 days. This week, I’m looking at how stocks have usually performed based on the level of the VIX ...

She is a current CFA level 3 candidate and also has her ... Astute investors tend to buy options when the VIX is relatively low and put premiums are cheap. Such protective puts will generally ...

The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, which measures the expected volatility of the U.S. stock market, is on pace to close at the lowest level in more than three years. The index was at 14.26 ...

Last Wednesday, the VIX closed at 11.77, the lowest level since Aug. 26, 2014. According to contrarian investing 101, low volatility means high complacency, and high complacency is usually seen ...

The VIX at the 21.50 level on October 20 remains too low in the current environment. The long-term VIX chart highlights the rise from the September 12.68 low to the most recent 21.83 high.