If you want to trade options on fear I’ve listed some things below that you should know. If you are interested in other volatility investments besides options see “10 Top Questions About Volatility“. Regarding VIX options: Your brokerage account needs to be a margin account, and you need to sign up for options trading. There are various levels of option trading available (e.g., the …
Why do they call the VIX Index the “Fear Index” or “Fear Gauge” Because the VIX almost always goes up when the market goes down. The scarier the decline the higher the VIX tends to go. In the worst part of the 2008/2009 bear market it went as high as 80. In strong bull markets it historically bounces between 10 and 15. How can I …
You can get free delayed VIX option quotes at freerealtime.com or Yahoo Finance using the ^VIX symbol. Go to here for options calenders giving the correct expiration dates (always last trading on a Tuesday, expiration on a Wednesday morning) Schwab uses $VIX as the ticker symbol, Fidelity uses VIX, Yahoo uses ^VIX. VIX Settlement values (the price used to evaluate loss/gain at expiration) use symbol VRO …
2023 Schwab ETF Ex-Dividend and Pay date information Schwab has now published their ex-dividend / pay dates for all of their no-fee ETFs. The published dates are: Quarterly Distributions: SCHA, SCHB, SCHD, SCHG, SCHH, SCHM, SCHV, SCHX, FINDB, FNDX, FDNA 2023 Ex-Dividend Dates Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 22-March 21-June 20-September 6-December 28-December (potential cap gains div) Pay / Distribution Dates 27-March 26-June 25-September 11-December 3-January-2024 (potential …
SPY went ex-dividend Friday, December 20th, 2024, with a fourth-quarter dividend of $1.966 per share. SPY’s next distribution payout will be on Jan 31st, 2025—yes the SPDR folks take their time delivering the dividend. iShares’ IVV, one of the other two big S&P 500 ETFs, has already gone ex-dividend, on December 20th, with a dividend of $2.134 per share. Vanguard’s VOO dividend will be $1.739 …
