Yesterday – September 11, 2012 was a record day for VIX option trading with approximately 1.22 million contracts traded. This surpasses the previous record of 1.17 million contracts back on August 5, 2011. This also marks only the third time that VIX option volume has surpassed 1 million contracts. The other day this occurred was [...]
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Last Week’s VIX Action
Most of the week Dec VIX futures were at a discount to the spot VIX index. This was despite the November employment report being released on Friday. The market yawned at the report with the S&P 500 finishing up slightly on the week and VIX finished the week basically unchanged. The December contract spent most [...]