The stock market has been climbing despite rising geopolitical tensions after the U.S. captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

Market volatility is as low as we’ve seen in the last six months as measured by the CBOE Volatility (VIX) Index. VIX is a real-time index that represents the market expectation for near-term ...

Consumer and business confidence readings were sanguine, with investors anticipating deregulation, lower taxes, and maybe a reasonable dose of increased tariffs. “Normal” was the word. The VIX ranged ...

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 Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, is a benchmark that measures the expected future volatility of the S&P 500 index. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

News-driven FX Trading: How to Trade Events Like the FOMC, CPI, and NFP US stock indices tumble as traders await Trump’s tariff plan; VIX surges 28%, signaling heightened market fear. Stagflation ...

Since the tariff lows of April 2025, -1x Short VIX Futures ETF has rallied over +122%. Read why we consider SVIX a trading ...

The VIX index isn't the only forward implied volatility index. There are other indexes of different time frames ranging from 9 days to 1 year. They are called VIX9D, VIX3M, VIX6M, VIX1Y. Because of ...

Investors are always hearing about volatility, even when it’s benign. Seasoned veterans know about one of the primary ways of measuring turbulence: The CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the VIX.

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

John Summa is the founder of OptionsNerd.com and has authored a number of books. He has 6+ years as a chief economist and derivatives strategist. A Google search on VIX yields some unexpected pages: ...

U.S. stocks are about to cap off their worst year since 2008. But investors wouldn’t know it by glancing at what’s often referred to as Wall Street’s favorite fear gauge, which has recently failed to ...