Glossary · Entry & Exit Signals · V
VIX in plain English.
CBOE's index of 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility, read from SPX option prices and quoted as an annualised percentage. It measures size of moves, never direction.
Track
Entry & Exit Signals
27 terms in this track
Taught in
The option seller's dashboard
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Filed under V
Connections
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The idea, in context
How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.
Reading the illustration
Implied volatility sets the width of the bell: the shaded middle is the expected move, the tails are the rare big moves.
In French: VIX
Where it’s taught
Entry & Exit Signals
The option seller's dashboard
“The option seller's dashboard” introduces this term with worked examples, a quiz and the trades around it. The Academy is part of the YieldCove membership.
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Connected terms
8 terms around this one — the words its definition uses, its lesson siblings and the terms that build on it.
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- Same lesson
- Builds on this term
- Same track
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Where to go next
Understand it, try it with real numbers, then track it for free.
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