Miranda Marquit has been covering personal finance, investing and business topics for almost 15 years. She has contributed to numerous outlets, including NPR, Marketwatch, U.S. News & World Report and ...

Long VIX Futures ETF offers leveraged exposure to VIX, making it a powerful but risky short-term trading tool. Learn more ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

Sometimes, experiences in the stock market may feel like a long, unpredictable road trip through Texas: One minute, it’s bumper-to-bumper chaos, and in the thick of it, using your blinkers may even be ...

Stocks are volatile. That much is understood by most investors, but what exactly is volatility and how is it measured for the overall stock market? You may have seen references to something called the ...

The U.S. stock market’s fear gauge has climbed past a technical "resistance” level, in a "breakout” move above its 200-day ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I navigate market volatility in Options. This article is more than 9 years old. VIX is a trademarked ticker symbol for the CBOE ...

Wouldn't investing in the stock market be easier -- and a lot more lucrative -- if, before we invested, we knew what the market was going to do in the coming months? That seems a laughable proposition ...

VIX measures expected S&P 500 volatility, aiding short-term market outlooks. VIX surges hint at investor anxiety, predicting possible market drops. Though insightful, VIX often overestimates actual ...

The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, is a benchmark that measures the expected future volatility of the S&P 500 index. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...