Understanding how market volatility can correlate with market pullbacks can help investors make important investing decisions. Here's how I've used the VIX in my own portfolio. The markets are said to ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

Because VIX calls are based on VIX futures instead of the more volatile "spot" VIX, in the past I suggested that it would be easier to hedge a portfolio against a "black swan" stock market decline ...

Investors are best served being alert for new opportunity amid market volatility, says E-Trade’s Dave Whitmore in Part Two of his interview with MoneyShow.com. He suggests watching a weekly chart of ...

Warren Buffet once said that an investor should be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. The famous value investor was talking about the equity market, but it turns out ...

Analysts, bloggers and fan boys have been arguing the fundamentals and technical cases for a trade (or not) in Apple. Mark Sebastian, COO of Option Pit Mentoring, shows how to look at the VXAPL (Apple ...

'There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for stocks post-election and the VIX will be one way we monitor U.S. equities into year end,' says DataTrek Research's Nicholas Colas The recent surge in stocks ...

For many years, shorting long volatility ETNs has been among the most crowded trades, and the time decay of the VXX has been the center of attention for volatility traders. The short volatility trade ...

The recent surge in stocks on the heels of the U.S. election has so far coincided with a drop in Wall Street’s fear gauge, as investors watch market volatility for clues as to whether the rally will ...