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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 ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... top executive from the Chicago Board Options Exchange said yesterday. Volatility as measured by the CBOE volatility index (VIX) surged more than it ever has in history from below 28 to a two-year high of 48. The VIX falls as markets trade in a smaller ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... the masters of the universe. There's certainly fear in the financial markets now as reflected by the 22.6% jump in the VIX index to 42.99 last night. Chances are there'll be more to volatility in store given the current edgy state of financial markets. ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... better than the sage of Omaha. " Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." The jump in the VIX "fear" index overnight to 35.4 certainly shows that the market is fearful - it was the biggest one-day spike since February ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... index ended 0.1% on the up. To be sure, to be sure, I'm not so sure that equity markets were really that panicked. The VIX index told me so. The market's "fear" gauge jumped by 1.2% overnight. But at 16.1, this could not even be classed as palpitation ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... ready, you sure? The answer is it was never really there in the first place. That is, of course, if you believe in the VIX index - the financial markets' 'fear' gauge. The index jumped to 21.2 yesterday - not even above its long-term average of 20.3. ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... be what the current VIX - "fear" -- index reading suggests. Despite another big fall on Wall Street last Friday, the VIX index went down by 0.8 per cent instead of going up. At 17.95, the index is down 38.9 per cent from its 2011 high of 29.40 hit in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... going up and down at the sight of a puff of smoke quite literally." Derivatives and risk aversion measures including the US Vix volatility index showed investors were more pessimistic than they had been since July last year, he said. "We've seen a lot ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... during the GFC or when the European sovereign debt crisis occupied the headlines. And when fear is mentioned, there's the VIX index to measure that. Currently or since the MENA tension erupted, the index had been trading at around 20. Sure this is about ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" soared by 27 per cent to its highest level in nine months. Oh no! We're in trouble now - big trouble. Just ...