Buy low, sell high. The trend is your friend. Sell in May and go away. Wall Street is teeming with familiar financial adages. But there’s one you may not have heard of: “When the VIX is high, it’s ...

The Cboe Volatility Index – frequently referred to by its ticker symbol, "the VIX" — is a real-time measure of implied volatility on the benchmark S&P 500 Index (SPX). Not only is the VIX used as a ...

Stocks are volatile. That much is understood by most investors, but what exactly is volatility and how is it measured for the overall stock market? You may have seen references to something called the ...

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 ...