Thursday, October 16, 2008

VIX Spikes to Record of 77.72

...in relatively orderly selling. The VIX just surpassed the previous all-time high of 76.92, which was set last Friday.

Also of interest, Oct 100 calls just traded at 1.00

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Vix cash index just traded above 80 (80.14) and the DJIA is down 378 points to 8200. The five year low of DJIA 7885 that occurred on October tenth is only three hundred points away.

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