How Much Should We Expect the VIX to Move?
Every couple of months it seems like there’s an uptick in articles about the CBOE’s VIX Index being broken or manipulated. Generally I expect the percentage moves in the VIX to be around a factor of 4 in the opposite direction of SPX (S&P 500). But there are significant eccentricities in the VIX that I factor in, for example Fridays tend to be down days, …