Buy low, sell high. The trend is your friend. Sell in May and go away. Wall Street is teeming with familiar financial adages. But there’s one you may not have heard of: “When the VIX is high, it’s ...

The concept of a Volatility Index (VIX) was first introduced by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1993. Originally, based on the S&P 100 index, it was revised in 2003 to track the S&P 500 ...

Implied volatilities were mostly rangebound last week despite rising geopolitical risk. While the VIX index ended last week unch’d at 14.5%, there were notable changes underneath the index surface.