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No, the VIX isn't riggedVIX at the weekly view. I didn't have time to write this last week due to a hectic schedule. Better late than never, I guess. The VIX broke the weekly resistance and bounced from the pivot zone (white line). A smaller VIX spike is in progress. No, I am not expecting above 40 at all. Maybe mid-30s at the higher end. It would be nice if I am wrong so more opportunities can arise... With the relatively big contango going on between VIX and VX, you would need extreme, precise timing in VX long entries and exits... I don't like babysitting trades at all - where there is no margin for error. I prefer trades were I am allowed to have plenty of margin for error (easier trades). It seems that my red line still lives on which I am very surprised. It should expire in the next quarter... but it's hard to pinpoint. Even then, cash (or cash equivalents) is still still king. Why is that important? The biggest VIX spikes were driven due to 1 particular reason: excessive demand for hedges in SPX /ES options. There is no "suppression" program as conspiracy theorists claim on social media. There is no mysterious group (often called "they") that magically pull levers to control all markets. That type of thinking is a losing mentality. That mentality means the person lost a lot and wants to blame someone else other than himself/herself. It's like a grown adult blaming all their problems on their parents. It's a very unhealthy coping mechanism. As stated before, there are 3 reasons why the VIX won't spike hard despite big red days in the SPX or ES. 1) When short-term bond yields are high and in an uptrend (bond prices in a downtrend), cash becomes king (not trash). So, when positions are being sold, the money is then flowed into cash equivalents like treasury bonds and securities. That means there is less money going to hedges. VIX doesn't get a big spike if there less demand for hedges. 2) When the bonds are sinking (yields rising), there is also sector rotation from growth to cyclical stocks. More specifically, dividend value stocks become more attractive. That just means money is just rotating among sectors within the SPX /ES. There are little hedges being bought during this rotation... as it's just trading shares for shares. 3) Hedges were meant to protect gains in investments. If the investment is at a loss, then there is no need for a hedge since that would unnecessarily tie up more capital. When cash is king, it makes more sense just to sell for tax-loss harvesting (to offset gains for tax purposes) than to add more stress with hedges. Imagine if you had $1 million in gains this year and you then owe over $400,000 in taxes. Most likely, you would worry about how to lower your tax liability. Tax-loss harvesting is a common method. Hedges were meant to protect gains so the investments would reach the long-term capital gains tax rate (which is significantly lower). It is NOT an inverse index nor some sort of fear index (which the media loves to label it as). Normally, if I see something who treats it that way, it's a red flag that they never bothered studying the VIX and VX. The VIX loves to punish anyone who is impatient or anyone didn't bother to understand its mechanics. Imagine the VIX like piloting a commercial or transport plane. If you don't understand the flight control systems thoroughly, you will likely crash the plane.
TVC:VIX
by Itsallsotiresome
1
There Is No VIX "Suppression Program"VIX at the weekly view. I didn't have time to write this last week due to a hectic schedule. Better late than never, I guess. The VIX broke the weekly resistance and bounced from the pivot zone (white line). A smaller VIX spike is in progress. No, I am not expecting above 40 at all. Maybe mid-30s at the higher end. It would be nice if I am wrong so more opportunities can arise... With the relatively big contango going on between VIX and VX, you would need extreme, precise timing in VX long entries and exits... I don't like babysitting trades at all - where there is no margin for error. I prefer trades were I am allowed to have plenty of margin for error (easier trades). It seems that my red line still lives on which I am very surprised. It should expire in the next quarter... but it's hard to pinpoint. Even then, cash (or cash equivalents) is still still king. Why is that important? The biggest VIX spikes were driven due to 1 particular reason: excessive demand for hedges in SPX/ES options. There is no "suppression" program as conspiracy theorists claim on social media. There is no mysterious group (often called "they") that magically pull levers to control all markets. That type of thinking is a losing mentality. That mentality means the person lost a lot and wants to blame someone else other than himself/herself. It's like a grown adult blaming all their problems on their parents. It's a very unhealthy coping mechanism. As stated before, there are 3 reasons why the VIX won't spike hard despite big red days in the SPX or ES. 1) When short-term bond yields are high and in an uptrend (bond prices in a downtrend), cash becomes king (not trash). So, when positions are being sold, the money is then flowed into cash equivalents like treasury bonds and securities. That means there is less money going to hedges. VIX doesn't get a big spike if there less demand for hedges. 2) When the bonds are sinking (yields rising), there is also sector rotation from growth to cyclical stocks. More specifically, dividend value stocks become more attractive. That just means money is just rotating among sectors within the SPX/ES. There are little hedges being bought during this rotation... as it's just trading shares for shares. 3) Hedges were meant to protect gains in investments. If the investment is at a loss, then there is no need for a hedge since that would unnecessarily tie up more capital. When cash is king, it makes more sense just to sell for tax-loss harvesting (to offset gains for tax purposes) than to add more stress with hedges. Imagine if you had $1 million in gains this year and you then owe over $400,000 in taxes. Most likely, you would worry about how to lower your tax liability. Tax-loss harvesting is a common method. Hedges were meant to protect gains so the investments would reach the long-term capital gains tax rate (which is significantly lower). It is NOT an inverse index nor some sort of fear index (which the media loves to label it as). Normally, if I see something who treats it that way, it's a red flag that they never bothered studying the VIX and VX. The VIX loves to punish anyone who is impatient or anyone didn't bother to understand its mechanics. Imagine the VIX like piloting a commercial or transport plane. If you don't understand the flight control systems thoroughly, you will likely crash the plane.
CBOE:VIX
by Itsallsotiresome
Volatility S&P 500 Index (VIX) | Goes GREEN/Bullish!It is no secret, when the major indexes move down, the VIX goes up. We can see the inverse correlation quite easily as the VIX had a major bearish wave, from Sept. to Nov., just as the DJI and SPX moved up. Now the VIX bottomed late November and this week closed above MA200 and EMA300. The first green week in multiple months. Ok, let's predict the future. The VIX will move first to 27.90, easily. It can go higher and hit 30 and also higher... 33. Midterm (1-3 months). Long-term (3-6 months or longer) ... Above 43 and even 58. Ok! Let's just wait, nobody can predict the future... And these are just codes... You are looking at squares and lines on a screen... Really? We will see! Thank you for reading. Namaste.
TVC:VIXLong
by AlanSantana
2
VIX IndexThe Volatility Index VIX is one of the most popular methods for determining stock market emotions. In full, it stands for CBOE Volatility Index, the volatility index of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The market is an emotion, always has been, always will be. Robots? Great, but they are created by people with emotions. And a trader needs a method that allows him to identify these emotions. That's where the VIX index comes in. It is based on the volatility of options on the S&P 500 Index. Yes, yes, it's actually an index for an index, this happens in the markets. The VIX index is also known as the Fear and Greed Index. The index is expressed as a percentage and indicates the probability of the S&P 500 index moving over a period of 30 days, where the probability level is 68% (one standard deviation from the normal distribution curve, aka the Gaussian curve). Let's say that if the VIX is 15, therefore the expected change in the S&P 500 index over the course of a year, with a 68% probability, is less than 15% up or down. What does that have to do with emotion? For that, we need to understand the forces that underlie any strong market movement. Greed is the desire to possess more and more than is really needed. Whether it be money, goods, services, or any material values. According to a number of scientific studies, greed is the product of a chemical reaction in our brains that causes common sense to be discarded and sometimes causes irreversible changes in both the brain structure and the body. Perhaps someday a pill for greed will be invented, but for now, everyone is greedy without restraint. Greed is as addictive as smoking or drinking alcohol. "He has pathological greed," "he's the greediest guy the world has ever seen," are all victims of a very common mania. The average trader comes to the market and he is subjected to the strongest emotional influence, caused by the very brain "chemistry". He wants more and more and more, all the time. He wants more numbers on the account. He can't stop, he can't control himself. As the result, brokers and different near-market agents use this obsession with pleasure, exploiting his mental disease. Similar effects are associated with the emotions of "happiness" and euphoria. As a result, such traders' brains are constantly bombarded with emotional temptations and endless financial carrots, just as narcotic substances give the effect of not getting high at all but of temporary relief. The dot-com bubble This is a classic example of market greed. The Internet bubble led to millions of investors continuously pouring money into Internet companies between 1995 and 2000, despite the fact that most of them had no future. It got to the point of absurdity. Some companies were getting hundreds of millions of dollars just for creating the website "XYZ dot com". Greed bred greed, led to a colossal overestimation of assets and their real value. Investors, obsessed with making easy money, invested insane amounts of money in nothing. The inflated bubble naturally burst and took all the money of the greedy people with it. The Financial Crisis of 2008 The book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis (and the movie "The Big Short ") tells the story of how a few people profited from the massive greed of others. An instrument like CDS (Credit Default Swap) turned into a crazy financial pyramid scheme with a turnover of over $62 trillion. In the financial crisis of 2007-2010, the volume of this market shrank threefold another bubble driven by greed and obsession burst at the seams, and the financial world shuddered and shrank dramatically. Only a few people made a fortune as they worked against the greed of the crowd. Fear An uncomfortable state of constant stress, waiting for the worst fate and constant threat. The dot-com bubble also demonstrated this emotion well. To cope with the horrific results of the dot-com bubble, out of fear, investors took money out of the stock market and put it into the safest possible instruments, like stable investment funds or government-backed funds. These funds were not very profitable, but their main advantage in the eyes of investors was minimal risk. This is an example of how investors ruined all of their long-term investment plans because fear forced them to hide their money literally under their pillow. These assets did not generate income, but remained conditionally safe. How to read VIX The correlation between the VIX and the S&P 500 is quite clear. Let's compare the values, where the blue line is the VIX and the orange line is the S&P 500. As we can see, a decrease in the VIX corresponds to an increase in the S&P 500, while an increase in the VIX (fear) in contrast is a signal of a collapse of the S&P 500. Statistics show that there is an inverse correlation between the VIX and the S&P 500, as the VIX moved in the opposite direction from the S&P 500 more than 80% of the time between 2000 and 2012. Where the VIX peaks, there is a decline in the S&P 500 and all the associated effects that affect both the dollar and other currencies. So, if the VIX is less than 20, investors are less worried, the volatility of the S&P 500 is expected to be low. If the VIX is greater than 30, investor fear increases as option prices on the S&P 500 rise; hence, investors pay more to hedge their assets. A typical picture is, for example, the VIX is at an ultra-low 10 and the S&P 500 is breaking new growth records. This is all an indication of an impending collapse of the S&P 500. However, if the Central Banks change monetary policy accordingly, this VIX level could very well become the new "normal" value. One scenario to use is to wait for the VIX to consolidate above 30 and enter the SPX on its decline. When investors have a scare, it's an indication of a panic sell-off. Let's look at some real examples. Since the beginning of this year, the VIX Index has been hitting fear records, reaching a high of 30. In theory, this means a drop in the SPX index. Well, why in theory? In practice it worked out 100%, the SPX index really collapsed spectacularly. Conclusion As we know, the S&P 500 index, which we have already studied, is the "king" index. It not only shows the state of the U.S. economy and stock market, but also indirectly shows the state of a mass of other assets, from interrelated indices to the value of the dollar. Because of correlation, Fear and Greed indices can be adapted to everything, both indices and currency pairs. It is one of the most popular stock indicators, unique in its kind and actively used for long-term market forecasts.
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CBOE:VIXEducation
by DeGRAM
26
SSHHHH! 'Dont tell em'.. VIXyoutu.be We use the VIX as FEAR gauge. This is a very important market to use in order to know how the big boys feel NOW and if trending.. for the FUTURE. See my previous post = 'I smelt FEAR creeping in'! Daily profile on actual ORDERS (the facts) closed 3 days in a row above the VWAP (also based on real order data - no BS) AND we have bounced from a tripple bottom and broken OUTof the down trend line. FACTS are at the moment VIX looks as though it's about the POP UP (Big FEAR is brewing). Does this mean Stocks, Crypto, Indices ALL continue the BEAR TREND? No indicator, candlestick patterns, MA's, Fibs, RSI, can ever tell you.. it all about the facts based on actual orders and keeping it simple... nothing else for me. Enjoy!
VLong
by Dips007Trading
2
Volatility Rally | Major Demand ZoneThe Volatility Index (VIX) has been in a historical downtrend the past weeks / 2 months! VIX has also been moving abnormal in relation to the S&P 500 Index which it tracks Volatility in. The Volatility Index has sunk to a major demand zone, and is now breaking back out of the area. After hitting Lows of around $19 the VIX is breaking out upwards. We are seeing a dump in the markets from major S&P Bear Market Trendline as well. Bears are stepping in at these levels in the markets, and the volatility index is rising, signaling further downward movement coming in the market. Simply put, the Volatility index is breaking out from its Major Demand Zone, and generally if history repeats will rally up to the supply zone up around the $30 level. This has been a typical swing move in the index since the beginning of 2022. Reasons VIX looks bullish : - TTM Squeeze (Daily & Weekly) - Reclaimed Daily EMA Cloud - Market Rejecting Major Trendline (S&P) - Cup & Handle on VIX (1hr / 1D) - Double Bottom - Market Greed - CPI & FOMC coming up How to play : $UVIX commons $VIX option calls etc. There are multiple reasons Volatility is rising currently, and Technicals back this thesis up strongly. I hope you liked the though!
TVC:VIXLong
by ZachSap