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VIX is the ticker symbol and the popular name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange's CBOE Volatility Index, a popular measure of the stock market's expectation of volatility based on S&P 500 index options. It is calculated and disseminated on a real-time basis by the CBOE, and is often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge.
The chart above tracks the average VIX level across the calendar year, using data from 1990 to 2023. The small peak around the beginning of August already perfectly captured the Aug. 5 spike that ...
18 October 2007: While activity remained normal in the morning, during noon trades, the Sensex tumbled down as the intensity of selling increased towards the closing bell of the BSE. The Sensex tumbled all the way to a low of 17,771 – down 1,428 points from the same day's high. It finally settled on 17,998 with a loss of 717 points (3.8%).
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VIX (introduced by CBOE in 2003) is counted as an option price's weighted average, using all available range of strikes, thus it is independent of the model used to derive implied volatilities. This technique works with a thick grid of actively traded strikes (i.e. S&P 500 and other indices), but not for the majority of optionable stocks.
India INX claims that it is the world's fastest exchange, with a turn-around time of 4 microseconds. [5] It operates 22 hours a day, six days a week. [ 6 ] These timings facilitate international investors and Non-Resident Indians to trade from anywhere across the globe at their preferred time.
The A-VIX is a market instrument pricing investor sentiment and market expectations. A relatively high A-VIX value implies that the market expects significant changes in the S&P/ASX 200 over the next 30 days, while a relatively low A-VIX value implies that the market expects minimal change. The ASX chart below illustrates this relationship.
These are volatility swaps, variance swaps, conditional variance swaps, variance options, VIX futures for equities, and (with some construction) [2] [3] caps, floors and swaptions for interest rates. [ 4 ] Here, the hedge-instrument is sensitive to the same source of volatility as the asset being protected (i.e. the same stock , commodity , or ...