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Record Volume Month for VIX Futures

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
November 1 - 9:24 pm
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Nov. 1st – The CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE®) announced today that trading in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) reached an all-time volume high for any month in its history. During October, a record 2,443,878 VIX futures contracts changed hands, beating the September record of 2,400,552 contracts. VIX futures average daily volume (ADV) [...]

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Q&A on VIX from CBOE Webcast

Russell Rhoads
Instructor
CBOE
September 12 - 9:54 am
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Yesterday I hosted a webcast for CBOE on trading exchange traded products that base their performance on VIX strategies.  During the webcast Barb and I fielded several very good questions regarding VIX.  A few highlights are below – Can you comment on the recent relatively low level of VIX? VIX has been under 20 and [...]

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“Drought” Options – Implied Vol Up 50% This Month

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
July 20 - 3:56 pm
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A recent Reuters news report indicated that “Grain prices pushed to record highs on Thursday as scattered rains in U.S. Midwest did little to douse fears that the worst drought in half a century will not end soon or relieve worries around the world about higher food prices.  Government forecasters did not rule out that [...]

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The VIX Term Structure and Launch of SPX Extended Weekly

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
June 8 - 2:14 pm
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Investors often are interested in risk management and volatility expectations over different time periods.   Below is an overview of the VIX term structure, and an update on the launch of SPX Extended Weekly options. 1. VIX TERM STRUCTURE The VIX® term structure illustrates, by maturity, expectations of market volatility conveyed by S&P 500 (SPX) stock [...]

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Several Volatility Indexes Rose More Than 35% Last Month

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
June 1 - 2:09 pm
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Several volatility indexes (including VXGOG, VIX, OVX, VXN, VXEEM, and GVZ) rose more than 35% last month www.cboe.com/volatility The S&P 500 Index (TR) declined by 6% in May. The BXM and PUT Indexes took in premium that helped cushion their downside moves in May. www.cboe.com/benchmarks * Please note that indexes are not directly investable. Options [...]

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VIX-related Instruments to be Discussed at Three Events in New York

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
April 19 - 10:54 am
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Next week VIX-related benchmark indexes and investable instruments will be discussed at three events in New York: Tuesday, April 24th – NY QWAFAFEW event begins at 5:30 p.m. at 40 E. 43rd St. 6:20 p.m. presentation on “Tail Risk Management, The VIX®, and Benchmark Indexes” http://bit.ly/NY-Qwa-VIX Wednesday, April 25th – Capital Link Forum begins at [...]

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Options on OVX Index Launch Tuesday, April 10th – Risk Management and Implied Volatility for Options on Oil Fund

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
April 10 - 9:51 am
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On Tuesday April 10th CBOE is launching trading of options on the CBOE Crude Oil ETF Volatility Index (ticker – OVX), a key measure of the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility of crude oil prices that applies the VIX® methodology to United States Oil Fund (USO) options spanning a wide range of strike prices. www.cboe.com/ovx [...]

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Video: CBOE Volatility Index – Fact & Fiction Part 4

CBOE
March 29 - 3:41 pm
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Watch Part 4 of CBOE’s Fact & Fiction five part educational series, where Doug Prskalo of Blue Capital Group discusses the direction the S&P 500 and  VIX move in and how traders use the VIX.

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New VVIX Index Measures the Volatility of Volatility

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
March 16 - 2:18 pm
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Bonita Springs, Fla., March 14, 2012 – Today CBOE introduced the new “VIX of VIX® Index (ticker: VVIX(SM)). www.cboe.com/VVIX The new VIX of VIX Index tracks the expected volatility of the CBOE Volatility Index® (the VIX® Index), the world’s most widely-followed market volatility index. VVIX reflects the market’s consensus of expected volatility of the 30-day [...]

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New Paper on Key Tools For Hedging and Tail Risk Management

Matt Moran
Vice President
CBOE
March 12 - 4:19 pm
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Bonita Springs, FL – March 12, 2012 – Today Mr. Mitch Boraz, Senior Consultant at the Asset Consulting Group of St. Louis presented a new paper — “Key Tools for Hedging and Tail Risk Management” — at CBOE’s 28th Annual Risk Management Conference (RMC) www.cboermc.com The study, the second of two ACG papers commissioned by [...]

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