Volatility in the stock market creates opportunities for long-term investors, as irrational sell-offs offer rare bargains.

The VIX by itself isn't predictive. It gains predictive value when its implied volatility is compared to actual market volatility. Moments when implied volatility exceeds real volatility by 10 units ...

The VIX index reflects the implied volatility of put and call options on the stocks in the S&P 500 index. Implied volatility is the consensus expectation of future price variance. Since options are ...

In an August 29 Barchart article, I wrote: The economic and political factors facing markets remain why the VIX will stay elevated, and the odds favor higher instead of lower levels for the volatility ...

There’s an epidemic that has infected the stock market, in a way that is wreaking havoc on those of us who like to write ...

Maybe the VIX's spike can benefit options traders after all... Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, March 8. The current trade war rhetoric is impossible to escape on ...

The recent price breakdown in the US stock market (near the end of February 2020) prompted a very big spike in the VIX – could we see another HUGE spike with a deeper price selloff in the near future?