The stock market’s volatility gauge was rising Monday, the day before U.S. election day. “With the polls so close between two completely different candidates, it’s understandable to see ...

With signs of generally extended positioning within equities, investors are debating the most effective way to protect gains ...

The VIX was at the 14.56 level on August 29, sitting between 14 and 16. Since then, the volatility index has made lower lows as the decline continues, with the S&P 500 sitting near the 2023 high ...

Looking for signs of market bottoms can be useful for managing expectations and estimating when the expected return is ...

Market angst sees the Cboe VIX index — a gauge of expected S&P 500 volatility — trade around 23, notably above its long-term average of 19.5. However, as the chart below from Capital Economics ...

The price action on the VIX caused the index to print a doji candlestick on the daily chart. A doji is a transitional candlestick that suggests a change in direction could be on the horizon.

The red dotted line above still represents the current VIX index level (January 6 th of 16.04), as it did in the first chart. It is only mainly that period from 2004 to mid-2007 where the VIX ...

In 2020, the VIX traded from an 11.75 low to an 85.47 high, the highest level since 2008 when the VIX reached 89.53 during the global financial crisis. In 2021, the volatility index range was as ...

Yet the CBOE VIX index an option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 volatility that’s known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, was relatively sanguine. It’s currently below 18, lower than its ...

Lawrence G. McMillan is president of McMillan Analysis, a registered investment and commodity trading advisor. McMillan may ...

That’s the picture painted by technical charts looking at the Cboe Volatility Index, a gauge of implied equity swings for the S&P 500 known as the VIX.

At first glance the relationship between the VIX index and the yield curve is not obvious. A two-year moving average of the two indicators charted since 1990 looks like this (Figure 1): ...