The movements of the CBOE’s VIX® are often confusing. It usually moves the opposite direction of the S&P 500 but not always. On Fridays the VIX tends to sag and on Mondays it often climbs because S&P ...

Stock investors and traders look for every subtle sign that can help them predict the future movements of stock prices. VIX and other volatility indices can help investors gauge market sentiment and ...

Miranda Marquit has been covering personal finance, investing and business topics for almost 15 years. She has contributed to numerous outlets, including NPR, Marketwatch, U.S. News & World Report and ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

The mysterious volatility trader known as "50 Cent" appears to have made some new bets this week that the stock market will go nuts over the summer. The trades match a growing sentiment across Wall ...

CBOE: VIX OPTIONS TRADING ONLY STARTED AT 0958, 7 MINUTES AFTER WE WERE FIRST ABLE TO CALCULATE VIX Yahoo Finance ...

The three major U.S. stock indexes set new intraday records yesterday during early trading — but at the same time, the Cboe Volatility Index was gaining, too. The VIX measures expected short-term ...

This almost sounds like it could be the setup for an extremely niche markets joke. Several exchange-traded products that track swings in a popular Wall Street volatility gauge were themselves halted ...

Markets settling in to see what the president has to say in tonight's State of the Union. A look at an interesting piece done recently on VIX duration. Set-up for a new ES trade: the double diagonal.

CHICAGO (CN) - Not waiting for regulators to finish their investigation, an investor brought a federal class action Tuesday that accuses the Chicago Board Options Exchange of allowing the so-called ...