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If anyone doesn't know yet based off this month , and VIXmageddon in 2018 , and the 2008 financial crisis - the VIX, or fear index as it's known to have been called from time to time, rises quite rapidly when the stock market falls. There are all sorts of reasons for this, but the primary on...

Bill Ackman is an American hedge fund manager who is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management. Occasionally, he appears on CNBC, the business news network. Ackman is a self-proclaimed activist investor. He rose to fame with a high-profile short position in Herbalife ( HLF ),...

By Leo Chen, Ph.D. The S&P 500 dropped 11.5% the week before last week, the fastest correction in its history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had two 1000-point drops in that week; the Dow also had four days with 1000-point intraday swings in the past two weeks, making it six out of ...

In my oft-repeated "Wall of Worry" chart, I've been using the Vix Index divided by the 10-yr Treasury yield as a proxy for the market's level of worry. With 10-yr yields now down to record-setting lows (0.75% as of this writing), putting the 10-yr in the denominator slot makes it the dominant ...

When I listen to the talking heads on the business news channels I chuckle. One says it’s a buying opportunity, another says don’t go near this market. They all put some narrative to their instincts, but as you cut through it, there’s not much underlying insight. They&#x...

Source: istockphoto.com Despite the coronavirus outbreak in China that has partially shut down the second-largest economy and downgraded global growth expectations, investor appetite for U.S. ‘ long duration ’ assets seems unabated as both the U.S. growth (technology) stocks ...

The stock market has become a rollercoaster of wide price swings over the recent days and weeks. The prices of the leading stock indices were making higher highs and reaching new records throughout 2019 and into early 2020. However, stocks hit a series of speed bumps over the past weeks. The d...

The volatility bulls caught some relief today with the shares of the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN ( TVIX ) rallying by 20% in a single session. While this certainly was rewarding for some traders, I believe that a simple look at the long-term momentum table tells the story pretty...

With the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak rapidly morphing into a full-blown crisis, markets began scrambling to reprice the potential impact as the S&P 500 ( SPY ) dropped -1% last week while more notably the VIX index ( VXX ) launched off the lows by more than 20%, the biggest weekly jump si...

We're honestly not totally sure if we'll ever stop talking about the VIX. We correctly guessed (not that hard) the VIX was going to be a big part of the 2019 conversation, and we're back 365 days later in our Managed Futures Outlook 2020 talking about it again: … did anything reall...