Some indexes can be hard to find on Google and Yahoo Finance. The chart below gives some ticker symbols for popular indexes. Index Google Finance Ticker Yahoo Finance Ticker S&P 500 INDEXSP:.INX or .INX ^GSPC Dow Jones Industrial INDEXDJX:.DJI or .DJI ^DJI VIX INDEXCBOE:VIX ^VIX 13 Week Treasury Bills INDEXCBOE:IRX ^IRX
VXX’s next reverse split will be July 24, 2024, at a four to one ratio. For a security doomed to decrease in value over time Barclays’ VXX does amazingly well. Its volume averages over 12 million shares per day and its assets under management had stayed around $800 million to $1.5 billion until an ugly 2022, were it had to cease share creations for 6 …
Based on searches that lead people to Six Figure Investing, these are the top 10 questions people ask about volatility investing: How can I buy/trade/invest in the CBOE’s VIX® index? The short answer is that you can’t. No one has figured out how to do this economically. However, there are quite a few investment approaches that allow you to trade in volatility, including futures, options on …
Update A comment on this post from “~”, writer of the Volatility Futures and Options blog, revealed that in this post I made the mistake of assuming that correlation meant causation in analysing the data—a danger I warn against in Patterns, Predictions, and the Correlation Fairy. It’s too bad, it was a fun story. I’m not beating myself up about it, but it illustrates the …
The dynamically updated chart above uses delayed quotes from Google Finance. It details the interpolation / extrapolation process that computes the 30 day VIXMO from two close-in months of SPX options (VINMO and VIFMO). This calculation is the legacy version of the VIX that was used from 23-Sept-2003 through 5-Oct-2014. On October 6th, 2014 the CBOE modified the calculation to start using SPX weekly options …
