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Vol Indexes Up +17% So Far This Month – VHSI, VCAC, and VXEWZ – By Matt Moran

June 14, 2013 — Volatility indexes that have risen more than 17% so far this month include the VHSI – HSI Volatility Index (Hong Kong), the VCAC – CAC-40 Volatility Index (France), and the VXEWZ – CBOE Brazil ETF Volatility Index. On the other hand, the OVX – CBOE Crude Oil Volatility Index has fallen [...]

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Q&A on VIX from CBOE Webcast

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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Low-cost Protection — One Year After VIX Peak

AUG. 9, 2012 — A year ago, on August 8, 2011, the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) closed at 48.00, its highest closing value since March 9, 2009. Yesterday, on August 8, 2012, the VIX closed at 15.32 (a level that was 68% lower than the year-earlier level). Yesterday Reuters published an article is entitled “Time [...]

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VIX Up 12.6%, as 20 Vol Indexes Rose Today

Monday, July 23 — While many stock indexes plunged today, twenty of CBOE’s volatility indexes rose.  Visit www.cboe.com/volatility to see a list of indexes with updated delayed quotes. Here is a list of percentage changes for some volatility indexes on July 23 – 12.6%       VIX® – CBOE Volatility Index®  www.cboe.com/VIX 6.3%         VVIX – CBOE VIX [...]

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Is Volatility of Volatility Unusually High?

After reading news reports the past few weeks about the Eurozone crisis, one might get the impression that the volatility of volatility is unusually high.   A key measure of volatility of volatility is the CBOE VIX of VIX Index (ticker VVIX, www.cboe.com/VVIX ) which is designed to measure the expected future volatility of the CBOE Volatility [...]

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