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Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... to go all in while the coin is still up in the air. There's little confidence but neither is there extreme fear. The VIX index tells us so. It closed 14.8% higher overnight to 24.1 - high but not as high as the 40 plus readings seen last August and October. ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... more and investors invest more. Sadly, the opposite is happening now. There's fear in the air and it's rising - the VIX index closed above 25 last week from a low of 14.26 barely two months ago. An ominous sign that markets may be getting what they're ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... as we've seen overnight, these have not prevented the dip buyers from buying the dips. And why should they when the VIX index - the fear gauge - has not sounded the alarm bells? The index closed at 19.6 last night, still lower than 2012's high of 22.97 ...

ETN fears grow following price plunges

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... exotic Exchange Traded Notes is raising fears in the US, following a price crash in a popular ETN that was tracking the VIX index, that the notes are poorly understood. ETNs, as distinct to regular Exchange Traded Funds, are a form of unsecured structured ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? Don't think so. Not when the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - closed at just 16.44 overnight - that's not fear. Even it's intra-day high of 17.74 is lower than the plus 20 posted when ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... of this year. And it still hasn't come. And as if to mock me even more, that measure of volatility and/or fear - the VIX index - dropped to 13.99 points in intra-day trade the other day. This level is the lowest since June 2007. Get that? This was the ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... recycling of old spooks. And in spite of the headline-grabbing drops in many equity indices, that index of fear - the VIX index - rose to only 20.87 points last night, lower than the 23.40 points it registered at the start of 2012 and less than half ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... only between down 0.4% and up 0.32% before closing 0.15% overnight. Ouch! The official measure of volatility -- the VIX index -- closed below 20 overnight. This is down from above 20 reading at the start of the year and down, down from last year's high ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... underway in Europe. There's nothing like the smell of a European summit to scare the bejeesus out of financial markets. The VIX index spiked to a high of 20.33 overnight - a 9.7% increase from the previous day's level - before settling down 4.7% on the ...

Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Still, it won't hurt to start thinking about those low hanging fruits to add to your portfolio. Especially given that the VIX index - my other fave contrarian indicator -- is ascending to heights of maximum fear. Equity markets bottomed four months after ...