When you take a market that's very complacent with very high valuations that's already beginning to show signs of leakage, it doesn't really take much to really accelerate things and and throw the fuel onto the fire.
VIX ETFs are popular tools for hedging or speculating on volatility, tracking VIX futures. VIXY, VIXM, VXX, VXZ for short-term plays, SVIX for inverse volatility, UVXY for aggressive traders. Today's drop means gains for SVIX and declines for VXX, VIXY, and UVXY.
Wall Street sees steepest weekly drop in months due to trade uncertainty and Fed's cautious stance on rate cuts. A few ETFs emerged as top performers with leveraged strategies and sector-specific trends.
Global equity markets under pressure due to US recession fears. Despite expansion in services, concerns of slowing economy causing market turmoil. Interest rate futures show high probability of rate cuts. 5 ETFs rally amid market selloffs.
The VIX, the stock market's 'fear gauge,' has climbed to levels not seen in over five months, indicating growing concerns. Learn how rising Treasury yields and their impact on equities are driving this surge in market volatility.
As markets navigate the typical end-of-summer lull, investors are increasingly exploring diversified strategies that help to protect their portfolios from downside risk.
Market volatility, simply put, is how much and how quickly prices change. The larger and quicker, the more volatile the market. Market volatility is measured by finding the standard deviation from mean prices over a given period of time, or more commonly, the expected deviation in the future. And this, it turns out, is a great way to gauge the sentiment of investors in a market.
