Did Wednesday's 'VIX-piration' set the stage for Thursday's stock-market selloff?
On Wednesday, options and futures contracts tied to the Cboe Volatility Index, otherwise known as the VIX or Wall Street's ...
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Dealers under pressure as traders pile into VIX calls
These fresh trades are putting option dealers “extremely short VIX gamma,” Nomura cross-asset strategist Charlie McElligott wrote in a note this week. He estimates that dealers have to buy vega, or ...
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Large Stock Market Pullback Unlikely, Per This Fear Gauge
Digging into the CBOE Skew Index (SKEW) -- a way to measure S&P 500 Index (SPX) implied volatility -- after it hit an ...
Watch out for Wednesday's expiration of VIX options
Futures and options on the Cboe Volatility Index, the options-derived measure of expected volatility on the S&P 500, expire on Wednesday. That's often proved to be an "inflection" point for the stock ...
SEC acknowledges Cboe’s request to list 21Shares XRP ETF
21Shares filed to list its Core XRP Trust ETF in November, just days before crypto-friendly Trump prevailed in the US ...
The Fear Gauge Is Ticking Up. It’s Still Far From Panic Levels.
The Cboe Volatility Index, better known as the VIX or the market’s fear gauge, was rising early Tuesday. It’s still well below levels normally associated with market turbulence. The VIX measures how ...