Wall Street's fear gauge, or VIX, is flashing red as the S&P 500, tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) , plunges and volatility explodes higher on Tuesday . With the VIX surging roughly 30% ...

Options traders are taking bearish bets against the largest VIX-linked product, which suggests they see a lower CBOE Volatility Index or are hedging long positions in volatility. “For a change, we ...

With war escalations intensifying in the Middle East, following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the VIX ( VIX) initially surged to as high as 25.24 as U.S. stocks sold off. Still, market volatility ...

In this choppy market under President Trump’s second term, even risk-averse investors can dip into speculative ETFs for profitable trades. That is, if those investors pick their spots correctly. I’m ...

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 investment seeks to provide exposure to the daily returns of the S&P 500® VIX® Short-Term Futures Points-Change Inverse Daily Index. The index tracks the daily “points-change” return from a ...

The Cboe Volatility index, or VIX, an option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 volatility, is falling early Wednesday, trading just above the 16 mark. The VIX tends to rise when investors get more ...

Retail traders' behavior in moments of stress may hold the key to building a forward-looking volatility index that regulators and institutions could use to monitor systemic risk, according to Anton ...

Implied volatilities are up across asset classes following the US/Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend, as the conflict escalated in the region.

While U.S. stocks traded mostly higher Monday afternoon, the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX — often referred to as Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — jumped. It shows that “people are not necessarily that ...