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$VIX - IMPORTANT NOTE -
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 12:40:47 +0000 UTCThe $VIX is showing no tremors rights now, leading up to the GFC in 2008, the $VIX was testing the 30 level 5 times, showing that people were concerned at where the market was going and finally in Sept '08 the $VIX erupted and went as high as 96.
So we can see for nearly a whole year there was rumblings underneath the 30 level before the market collapsed.
Right now we are not seeing that with the $VIX, it remains at historical calm levels and comfortably below 30.
So this tells us 1 of 2 things:
Either nobody is ready for a market correction
Or there is no concern right now that the market is about to start its correction.
And right now, we are prepared but still staying in the market.
Comments
Antonio
what are the best investments to take a profit of it ?
DiegoTheSabre17
GFC - Great financial crash or gross f*** crash
DiegoTheSabre17
I think someone shared a SPY volatility cycle chart a few days ago that showed mid Feb to about mid march, volatility is rising. This coincides with SPY stock cycle of lower returns in same duration.
Daniel
thanks cap - i think I am leaning towards the first bullet point but at a 60/40 split between the two right now, just below ATHs, FOMO is/has set in. let's see how the next few trading days play out but also Feb historically has not been too nice to equities. if the first week of March can start out strong I think we are off to a melt up scenario
Trevor Sweetnam
Observing what the gold price has done during all of this is interesting also...
